WHEN: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 7:30 PM
WHERE:
Mount Holly Town Library
26 Maple Hill Rd.
Ludlow, Vermont
COST: Free and open to the public
From February 17 until March 15, 1913, thousands of
Americans pushed their way through the doors of the 69th Regiment Armory on the
east side of New York City while a battle was waging “for or against” Modern
Art for the first time.
What they saw would annoy and infuriate some...and
captivate, delight, and inspire many.
What resulted from these four weeks of mass exposure to
European artists such as Cezanne, Renoir, Van Gogh, and the upstart
Marcel Duchamp (with his “Nude Descending a Staircase”), as well as such
Americans as Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Charles Sheeler, changed how Americans came to understand their own times.
By entering through the doors of an armory, they had entered through the doors
of the Modern Era.
“The
Great Confusion: The 1913 Armory Show”
features more than 60 works by American and European painters and sculptors and
probes deeply into the history of how the show was organized. It provides fascinating
glimpses into the backstage efforts of the American artists Arthur B. Davies,
Walter Pach, and Walt Kuhn as they worked tirelessly to bring a new art to a
new American audience.
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