| Freak Art Scrapbook: Chicago's Armory Show in Print, 1913 Contributor(s): Hendrickson, Julia (Editor), Corbett, John (Introduction by), McElheny, Josiah (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0988449285 ISBN-13: 9780988449282 Publisher: Corbett vs. Dempsey OUR PRICE: $34.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Group Shows - Art | Folk & Outsider Art |
| Dewey: 700.904 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 10.9" W x 16.8" (1.19 lbs) 48 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1913, the year that the Armory Show hit Chicago, an anonymous Chicago artist gathered every newspaper clipping from the infamous Art Institute exhibition into an extraordinary handmade document. Freak Art Scrapbook presents this folk ledger documenting the key presentation of early twentieth-century American and European modernist art, a collection of witty and vitriolic snippets from the popular press, much of it dripping with satire as an entire city took to lampooning modern art. Lovingly reproduced in all its bilious, acidic yellow, sporting pre-jazz cartoons that snicker at Marcel Duchamp's iconic Nude Descending a Staircase, the scrapbook is a complex, multilayered artifact, not only a register of the Midwestern response to modernism, but also a fascinating glimpse of the central arguments about populism and the vanguard of art. |