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The New Spirit Gail Stavitsky

The New Spirit By Gail Stavitsky

The New Spirit by Gail Stavitsky


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Published on the occasion of an exhibition held Feb. 17-June 16, 2013, at the Montclair Art Musem, Montclair, N.J.

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The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913 by Gail Stavitsky

The International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known as the Armory Show, consisted of more than 1,300 works of art by American and European artists. During its original run in New York, Chicago, and Boston from mid-February to mid-May of 1913 and in the subsequent scholarship on the topic, most attention has centered on the avant-garde European artists, particularly Marcel Duchamp, Constantin Brancusi, and Henri Matisse, even though art by Americans comprised two-thirds of the works on view in this legendary show. The New Spirit is the first exhibit and catalogue to focus primarily on the American art in the Armory Show. While works by such renowned artists as Edward Hopper, Robert Henri, John Marin, Charles Sheeler, and George Bellows are included, The New Spirit highlights paintings, sculpture, watercolors, and prints by artists like Leon Kroll, Middleton Manigault, D. Putnam Brinley, Jerome Myers, Allen Tucker, Jonas Lie, E. Ambrose Webster, Chester Beach, and George Grey Barnard-talented individuals who remain at the periphery of mainstream American art history.

The New Spirit Reviews

"'The New Spirit' shows that several American artists were working through important new ideas in 1913. The moody riverscape by Van Dearing Perrine and the crystalline abstraction by Manierre Dawson are among the surprises here. These examples and others explain how, even if the Europeans won the day, American modernists would soon supplant them. 'America in the spirit of its newness,' predicted Kuhn, 'is destined to be the coming center.' The Armory Show made that possible."

-James Panero, The Wall Street Journal

About Gail Stavitsky

Gail Stavitsky is Chief Curator at the Montclair Art Museum.

Laurette E. McCarthy is an independent scholar and curator.

Charles H. Duncan is Collections Specialist for the Archives of American Art.

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CIN0988311305VG
9780988311305
0988311305
The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913 by Gail Stavitsky
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Montclair Art Museum,US
2013-01-18
160
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