Battle of Lights, Coney Island

IN RECENT YEARS there has been an effort on the part of some scholars to push the dates of American experimentation...

Some representations of the urban night accommodated the presence of the Other one way or another, using contrast or the picturesque to keep it at a distance, or immersing it in an ambiguous darkness. In a good number of images, however, artists attempted to depict the urban environment in and of itself, neglecting or effacing the marks of human presence. They...

Very little is known about Raphael Sala, an artist of Spanish birth whom Joseph Stella introduced to the Société Anonyme in 1921 ...

In 1921 Richard Boix, a cartoonist for Vanity Fair and The Dial, produced a cartoon showing Katherine Dreier and members of the Société Anonyme on the occasion of the organization’s Symposium on the Psychology of Modern Art and Archipenko (see fig. 6 in Gross’s introductory essay in the present volume). The...