(en) Jennifer Pfeifer Shircliff, Women of the 1913 Armory Show: Their Contributions to the Development of American Modern Art, Louisville (Kentucky), University of Louisville, 2014 — [PDF] lire des extraits en ligne.
moma.org
Lillie P. Bliss fut la cofondatrice du MoMA en 1928 — cf. la Notice en ligne sur le site du MoMA.
(en) "The Cubists and Futurists simply abolish the art of painting. They deny, not only any representation of nature, but also any known or traditional form of decoration... If they have really expressed their souls in the things they show us, God help their souls!... It began with the Impressionists denying the necessity of any knowledge of form or structure... The next step was for the Post-Impressionists to revolt again... Up to the time of Matisse, the revolutionaries, I believe, were for the most part part sincere enough. They paid for their beliefs with their lives: they made no money out of their beliefs; they committed suicide or died in madhouses. These men have seized upon the modern engine publicity and are making insanity pay. — Archive, en ligne.
