Julia Kiple:

This is going back quite a few years, but how about the Armory Show of 1913,
particularly its Chicago run?  Everyone denounced it, from
schoolteachers, to the city's methodist ministers, to the Art Institute's
director (who left town before the exhibit opened).  Students at the
School of the Art Institute burned an effigy of Henri Matisse/"Henry
Hairmattress" on the museum's front steps. _Nude Descending a Staircase_ seems
old hat now, but modernist art really through the city for a loop.

Best wishes,
Chris


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Christine L. Roch                         [log in to unmask]
Mount Holyoke College '96         http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~croch