In this episode, art historian Irene Walsh describes the now legendary Armory Show of 1913 in New York City. Irene wrote her PhD on art collector Lillie P Bliss, and she tells us about the groundbreaking show's shock value, the mockery that surrounded some of the paintings in it, and their unexpected effects on the American public and the art market. She tells us how the show led to the founding of New York's MoMa in 1929.

Further Reading:

The Story of the Armory Show by Milton W Brown, Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. 1988

The Armory Show at 100: Modernism and Revolution by Kushner, Orcutt and Blake, 2013

The chapter on the Armory show in The Shock of the New: Seven Historic Exhibitions of Modern Art by Ian Dunlop, 1972

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