Volume I of Salon to Biennial, with introductory texts by Bruce Altshuler, explores twenty-four groudbreaking international exhibitions. Opening with the seminal 'Salon des Refusés (Paris, 1863), Volume I spans the key modern art movements of the first half of the twentieth century, including Cubism ('Salon de la Section d'Or', 1972), Surrealism ('First Papers of Surrealism,' 1942), Abstract Expressionism ('The New American Painting,' 1959), and more. It also features the famous Armory Show of 1913 and Adolf Hitler's infamous 'Degenerate Art' exhibition of 1937. The book provides for the first time, through an abundance of documents and images, an invaluable and detailed record of the exhibitions that transformed not only art histoy, but also our perception of the modern era. [...]' (Book flap)
Selected bibliography and index included.
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2008
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Salon des Refusés, Paris, 1863
The First Impressionist Exhibition, Paris, 1874
The First Salon des Indépendants, Paris, 1884
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1905
The First Brücke Exhibition, Dresden-Löbtau, 1906
Manet and the Post-Impressionists, London, 1910
The First Blaue Reiter Exhibition, Munich, 1911
Les Peintres Futuristes Italiens, Paris, 1912
Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris, 1912
The First German Autumn Salon, Berlin, 1913
The Armory Show, New York, 1913
0.10: The Last Futurist Exhibition of Pictures, Petrograd, 1915
The First International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920
The First Russian Art Exhibition, Berlin, 1922
Film and Foto, Stuttgart, 1929
Cubism and Abstract Art, New York, 1936
Degenerate Art, Munich, 1937
Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Paris, 1938
First Papers of Surrealism, New York, 1942
Art of this Century, New York, 1942
Ninth Street Show, New York, 1951
The First Gutai Art Exhibition, Tokyo, 1955
This is Tomorrow, London, 1956
The New American Painting, New York, 1959
Salon to Biennial — Exhibitions That Make Art History Volume I: 1863-1959
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