Armory Show

But any further participation by Duchamp in French exhibits ceased early in 1913. In that year, his work appeared—with much fanfare—on the other side of the Atlantic, in the famous Armory Show mounted in New York from February to March of 1913. Duchamp left France early in the summer of 1915, taking up a more or less permanent residence in America, where he immediately gained the kind of critical notoriety that stubbornly eluded him in Paris. In part, this important exodus was due partly to an invitation extended to Duchamp by an American painter, Walter Pach, and partly, at the very beginning of World War I, to an understandable desire to avoid being called once again to the French colors. In those months, it was obvious that uniformed males led violent and short lives. ... 

Brown, M. W. American Painting, From the Armory Show to the Depression. Princeton Univ. Press, 1970. 

Green, M. New York 1913 The Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant. New York Scribners, 1988. 

Kuh, K. The Artist s Voice Talks with Seventeen Artists. New York Harper, 1962. Kuhn, W. The Story of the Armory Show. New York (privately printed), 1938. Lacassin, F. Louis Feuillade. Paris Ed. Seghers, 1964. 

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