{"id":35,"date":"2008-02-17T13:34:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T20:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=35"},"modified":"2008-02-17T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T22:23:32","slug":"95-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/17\/95-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"95 Years Ago Today &#8211; The 1913 Armory Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~MUSEUM\/Armory\/armoryshow.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"1913 Armory Show Poster - The Most Important Show in Modern Art History\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/1913-armory-poster.jpg\" alt=\"1913 Armory Show Poster - The Most Important Show in Modern Art History\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>Lauded as one of the most influential events in the history of American art, the Armory Show has a mythic legacy that rivals the raucous opening of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/specials\/milestones\/991110.motm.riteofspring.html\" title=\"Raucous Operaus\" target=\"_blank\">Igor Stravinsky&#8217;s ballet, <em>The Rite of Spring<\/em><\/a> in Paris. In the wake of previous large independent art exhibitions in France, Germany, Italy, and England, from February 17th to March 15th, 1913, <a href=\"http:\/\/69thnyvi.homestead.com\/\" title=\"Fighting 69th\" target=\"_blank\">New York&#8217;s 69th Regiment Armory<\/a> on Lexington Avenue between 25th and 26th streets was home to approximately 1250 paintings, sculptures, and <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html\" title=\" THE GIACOMETTIS' DECORATIVE WORKS\" target=\"_blank\">decorative works<\/a> by over 300 European and American artists. While the purchase of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/wm\/paint\/auth\/cezanne\/hanged-man\/hanged-man.jpg\" title=\"This does not link to Hill of the Poor but to a better Cezanne.\" target=\"_blank\">C\u00e9zanne&#8217;s <em>Hill of the Poor<\/em><\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\" title=\"Da Met\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> signaled an integration of modernism into official art channels, the shock and outrage proported from <a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~MUSEUM\/Armory\/nude.jpg\" title=\"She don't look nekkid to me, Ethel!\" target=\"_blank\">Duchamp&#8217;s <em>Nude Descending the Staircase<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcs.csuhayward.edu\/~malek\/Matisse\/Matisse21.html\" title=\"Holy aureolae! Now this one's nekkid, by gup!\" target=\"_blank\">Matisse&#8217;s <em>Luxury<\/em><\/a> connected the Armory Show, officially known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askart.com\/AskART\/interest\/new_york_armory_show_of_1913s_1.aspx?id=15\" title=\"AskArt (just not about his aureolae).\" target=\"_blank\">The International Exhibition of Modern Art<\/a>, with an historic avant-garde whose duty was to <a href=\"http:\/\/aggieotis.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/modern-fart.html\" title=\"Modern fArt\" target=\"_blank\">question the boundaries of art as an institution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~MUSEUM\/Armory\/armoryshow.html\" title=\"click to view source website\" target=\"_blank\">Shelly Staples, University of Virginia, 2001<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~MUSEUM\/Armory\/armoryshow.html\">click here to view the 1913 Armory Show<\/a> as reproduced by Shelley Staples for the American Studies Program at the University of Virginia ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauded as one of the most influential events in the history of American art, the Armory Show has a mythic legacy that rivals the raucous opening of Igor Stravinsky&#8217;s ballet, The Rite of Spring in Paris. In the wake of previous large independent art exhibitions in France, Germany, Italy, and England, from February 17th to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}