Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show

Mancini, JoAnne Marie

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JoAnne Marie Mancini

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00096

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Speaking of the emergence of modernism, author Virginia Woolf famously said: "On or about December 1910, human character changed." But was the shift to modernism really so revolutionary? J. M. Mancini argues that it was not. She proposes that the origins of the movement can in fact be traced well into the nineteenth century.

Several cultural developments after the Civil War gradually set the stage for modernism, Mancini contends. New mass art media appeared on the scene, as did a national network of museums and groundbreaking initiatives in art education.These new institutions provided support for future modernists and models for the creators of the avant-garde. Simultaneously, art critics began to embrace abstraction after the Civil War, both for aesthetic reasons and to shore up their own nascent profession. Modernism was thus linked, Mancini argues, to the emergence of cultural hierarchy.

A work of impeccable scholarship and unusual breadth, the book challenges some of the basic ideas about both the origins of twentieth-century modernism and the character of Gilded-Age culture. It will appeal not only to art historians but also to scholars in American history and American studies.

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JoAnne Marie Mancini

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Print publication date January 2005 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780691118130

EISBN 9780300249767

Illustrations 76

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List of illustrations

Menu Card
Yamato-Daké No Mikoto
Cover
The Barefoot Boy
Santa Claus on a Bicycle (Merry Christmas)
Along Ipswich River
Composition
Fancy Work, typical page from The Art Amateur
Modern Symbolism, typical page from Modern Art
Outdoor Scenes
Summit of the Sierra Nevada
American Museums.–III. The Art Museum of Cincinnati, with Descriptive Notes
Advertisement for Indianapolis Art Association exhibition at the Propylaeum
Decorations for James Whitcomb Riley, The Hoosier Folk-Child
View in the Studio of Wm. M. Chase
Modern Art
Initials and Title Pages: The Record of the First Modern Art Competition in Decorative Drawings
Solitude
Two Primitive Pieces: Teacup and Vase for Flowers
Milton Bradley
The Checkered Game of Life
Under the Lamp
Dora Wheeler
Initial I
Interior, Munsell Crayons No. 3 Box, 22 Colors
Portrait Class, School of Design for Women, Cooper Union; Wyatt Eaton, Teacher
Floor plan of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In the National Academy of Design
Treatment of a Cup and Saucer
Albert Henry Munsell
Union of Lines
Exterior, Munsell Crayons No. 3 Box, 22 Colors, detail
Exterior, Munsell Crayons No. 3 Box, 22 Colors
Chart 60, Scales of Hue and Chroma, Reflecting 60% of the Incident Light
Advertisement for Materials for the Munsell Color System
The Art Department in the Woman's Pavilion
Portrait of a Lady
Dissecting a Job.–No. 2
Design for Main Entrance and Building of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Art Palace of the White City at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
Sylvester Rosa Koehler
The Path to the Shore
Our New Publishing-House
Major Henry Lee Higginson
Campaign Sketches ("Jollities" of Camp Life on the Potomac)
Peach Blossom
Seventy Years Ago
Young Girl Meditating (Fifty Years Ago)
The Shoemaker
Milton Bradley & Co. Publishers of Home Amusements
Salutation!
Jonah
The Art Amateur Working Designs, Numbers 1693–1696
Portrait of M. Antoine Proust, by Auguste Rodin
Advertisements for New White China, The Wilke Kiln, China Decoration
Advertisement for The Revelation China Kiln
My Lady's Chamber
Illustration from Tried by Fire: A Work on China Painting
Design from George Schmidt, Method of Teaching the Art of Psalligraphy by Self-Instruction
Migrations and Transformations of a Statue in the Metropolitan Museum of New York, numbered 39 in the Catalogue
Armory Show 1913
The Kneeling One (Kneeling Woman)
This is Not a Plate of Tripe
Alfred Stieglitz ("Camera Work," the Magazine without an "If")
Cover of Camera Work
The opening exhibition at 291, Nov. 1905–Jan. 1906
Eight Bells Folly: Memorial to Hart Crane
Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine)
Chart of the Prang Color Theory to Accompany Miss Ball's Paper
Line Drawing and Materials
Series I. Curved Line Drawings (Smoke)
Smoke
Louis Prang
C. E. S. Wood as a cadet
Skidmore Fountain

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JoAnne Marie Mancini

Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show

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JoAnne Marie Mancini

PublisherPrinceton University Press

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Introduction: Interrogating Modernism

JoAnne Marie Mancini

Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show

~~What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. —Octavio Paz, 1967

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JoAnne Marie Mancini

PublisherPrinceton University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)Art criticismArt publishingArmory Show (1913 : New York, N.Y.)

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1. Modern Art and Modern Art: From the Christmas Card to the Avant-Garde

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Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show

In 1895, an Indianapolis editor, printer, and sometime gallery owner named Joseph Moore Bowles moved his magazine, Modern Art (fig. 3), from his home city to...

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JoAnne Marie Mancini

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Chapter subject tags:Art publishingArt, Modern--PeriodicalsPrints, AmericanArt museums

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2. Building an American Art World

JoAnne Marie Mancini

Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show

In the years following the Civil War, a difficult situation confronted American art admirers. Observers...

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JoAnne Marie Mancini

PublisherPrinceton University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Art museumsArt, Modern--PeriodicalsArt--Study and teachingArt criticismArt publishing

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3. Professionalism and a New Aesthetic Order

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Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show

How to chart a future path for artisans was only one of many questions posed by industrialization. For the middle classes, it also brought about a profound crisis of authority, sparked by massive economic growth...

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JoAnne Marie Mancini

PublisherPrinceton University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Art--Study and teachingArt, Modern--PeriodicalsArt criticismModernism (Art)Art museums

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4. The Armory Show in Critical Perspective

JoAnne Marie Mancini

Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show

Without a doubt, the most famous moment in the emergence of modernism in the United States was the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known as the Armory Show...

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JoAnne Marie Mancini

PublisherPrinceton University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00096.006

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Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)Armory Show (1913 : New York, N.Y.)Art, Modern--ExhibitionsArt criticism

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5. Camera Work: Organizing the Avant-Garde

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Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is clear who ultimately won the battle between professionals and institution builders for the control of American art...

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JoAnne Marie Mancini

PublisherPrinceton University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)Art criticismArt, Modern--Periodicals"291" (Gallery)

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6. Continuity and Rupture

JoAnne Marie Mancini

Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show

The mythology of revolution that surrounds American modernism portrays the Gilded Age as a hostile and separate historical reality from the innovative, iconoclastic culture that...

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JoAnne Marie Mancini

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.181-213

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00096.008

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Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)Art criticismSynchromism (Art)Art--Study and TeachingWeichsel, John, 1870-1946

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Postscript. Pre-Modernism and Postmodernism: Reflections on the Tilted Arc Crisis

JoAnne Marie Mancini

Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show

Throughout this book, I have made two central arguments about American visual modernism...

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JoAnne Marie Mancini

PublisherPrinceton University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)Serra, Richard, 1938- Tilted arcPostmodernism

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Acknowledgments

JoAnne Marie Mancini

Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show

Everyone who writes a book incurs debts. As this project has taken many years—and many moves-to complete, I have incurred a lot. I would like to thank, first of all, the teachers whose guidance and support at Johns Hopkins University made this project possible, especially Dorothy Ross, Ronald Walters, and JoAnne Brown. For sparking my interest in earlier...

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