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9780300109214

The Société Anonyme; Modernism for America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300109214

  • ISBN10:

    0300109210

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2006-06-15
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

This beautifully illustrated book highlights the unique history of The Societe Anonyme, Inc., an organization founded in 1920 by the artists Katherine S. Dreier (18771952), Marcel Duchamp (18871968), and Man Ray (18901976). As America's first "experimental museum" for modern art, the Societe Anonyme provided a means for artists, rather than historians, to chronicle the rise of modernism. Led by Dreier and Duchamp, the group eventually assembled a collection of more than one thousand artworks, which it presented to the public in a variety of innovative programs, publications, and exhibitions. The incredible collection of the Societe Anonyme now belongs to the Yale University Art Gallery, a gift from the Societe and Dreier. It features the work of more than one hundred artists, many of whom are among the century's most renownedincluding Jean Arp, Duchamp, Max Ernst, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, El Lissitzky, Piet Mondrian, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, and Joseph Stellaas well as works by lesser-known artists whose contributions to modernism are substantial. With new archival information, including personal correspondence between Dreier and the artists whose work she assembled, a host of previously unpublished images, essays by leading scholars, and an interview with artists Robert and Sylvia Mangold about the contemporary significance of this collection, this fascinating book is essential to our understanding of the reception and interpretation of modernism in America.

Author Biography

Jennifer R. Gross is Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Susan Greenberg is Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Elise K. Kenney is historian and archivist, all at the Yale University Art Gallery. Ruth L. Bohan is associate professor of art history at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. David Joselit is professor of art history at Yale University. Dickran Tashjian is professor emeritus of art history at the University of California, Irvine. Kristina Wilson is assistant professor of art history at Clark University.

Table of Contents

An artists' museump. 1
Joseph Stella and the "conjunction of worlds"p. 17
The artist readymade : Marcel Duchamp and the Societe Anonymep. 33
"A big cosmic force" : Katherine S. Dreier and the Russian/Soviet avant-gardep. 45
"One big painting" : a new view of modern art at the Brooklyn Museump. 75
Art as experience : Katherine S. Dreier and the educational mission of the Societe Anonymep. 97
Believe me, faithfully yoursp. 123
The Societe Anonyme collection comes to Yalep. 143
The artists' view : Sylvia and Robert Mangold on the Societe Anonyme collectionp. 157
Artist biographiesp. 167
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