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	$9.00, 4.25" x 6.875" 80 pages, 978-0-9823257-1-1
	Documents of the 1913 Armory Show (The New Spirit and For and Against combined in e-book and hardcover!)

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For and Against is the frank and engaging account of the historic 1913 Armory Show’s original reception. The included essays capture the full range of impassioned opinion both for and against Modern Art's greatest works upon their first American showing. First published, remarkably, by the show’s organizers and sold at its Chicago venue, For and Against has long been out of print, but this new, expanded edition brings the Armory story and the birth of modern art in America, to life once again.

On February 17, 1913, the American Association of Painters and Sculptors opened the Armory Show in New York. The ad-hoc association had started out with the modest goal of showing some of the “new” art coming out of Europe--Duchamp, Matisse, Picasso and many more of today’s acknowledged masters. What they ultimately created was a sprawling showcase of some of the most ground-breaking (many said subversive) art America had ever seen.

Table of Contents

• The Statement, Arthur B. Davies
• The New York Exhibition, The Association of American Painters and Sculptors
• Letting in the Light, Frederick James Gregg
• Hindsight and Foresight, Walter Pach
• The New Art, Kenyon Cox
• The Great Confusion, The Chicago Evening Post
• Cubism by a Cubist, Francis Picabia
• As to Futurists
• The Cubist Room, Walter Pach
• Old and New Art, Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.
• A Layman’s Views of an Art Exhibition, Theodore Roosevelt
• The Armory Show and its Publications
• Contributors
• Further Reading