"And that this marks a reordering of the rules of art-making - it's as big as we've seen since the Renaissance. "It's this moment in time, 100 years ago, in which the foundations of cultural practice were totally reordered in as great a way as we have seen," she says. That's why the Armory Show was so important in 1913, Dickerman says. See, there's no more element of shock anymore." "Instead, today, any new movement is almost accepted before it started. Cubism was sort of forced upon the public to reject it. "There's a public to receive it today that did not exist then. Not bad for an artist unknown in this country at the time.ĭuchamp went on in the 1963 interview to say that, at the time, artists had lost the ability to surprise the public. After the commission, he received $240 - about $5,565, in today's dollars. Wasn't here at the time."ĭuchamp said he was in France when he got word that his painting had sold for $324. In the first place, I was a very young painter, 26 years old. When Collingwood asked Duchamp if he had realized that the piece would create "such a "furor," the artist responded: "Not the slightest. Walter Pach papers/Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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The audio is now at the Smithsonian's Archive of American Art.Ī notebook recording sales at the New York Armory Show shows that Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase sold for $324. In 1963, on the 50th anniversary of the Armory Show, Duchamp was interviewed by CBS reporter Charles Collingwood. Marcel Duchamp's Cubist-inspired Nude Descending a Staircase was famously described by one critic as "an explosion in a shingle factory." The most talked-about painting in the 1913 Armory Show deconstructed a human figure in abstract brown panels in overlapping motion. And certainly this idea of deconstructing the old way of thinking - is very much in the air." And in New York, new buildings like the Woolworth Building or the Grand Central Terminal - these are opening. New technology - electric light, communication - just an explosion of 19th-century norms. "Albert Einstein is working on a new theory of gravity. "All sorts of extraordinary things are happening," Paley says of the modern age.
But, Paley says, the artists' ingenuity was part of a bigger revolution.
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