Journal article
'Make the World Your Salon': Poetry and Community at the Arensberg Apartment
Modernism/modernity (Baltimore, Md.), Vol.15(4), pp.627-646
11/01/2008
DOI: 10.1353/mod.0.0039
Abstract
In 1915, the little colony at Grantwood anticipated the carnivalesque interactions of the Arensberg salon, creating what Crunden suggests was a semi-mythical ur-source for inspiration, high-jinks, sexual liberation, and alcohol-fueled feelings of mateship.\n Alfred Stieglitz's photograph of the readymade is first published here, alongside a detailed account of its rejection from the exhibition, an essay by Louise Norton entitled Buddha of the Bathroom, and an ode by Demuth, For Richard Mutt. Mention of a coin toss to determine "whether you resign or I resign" may be a coded reference to Duchamp and Walter Arensberg's resignation from the Society of Independents' board of directors, but more importantly, Loy underscores an analogous feature in the cultural practices of literary collage and the sculptural readymade.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- 'Make the World Your Salon': Poetry and Community at the Arensberg Apartment
- Creators
- Stephen Voyce
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Modernism/modernity (Baltimore, Md.), Vol.15(4), pp.627-646
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- DOI
- 10.1353/mod.0.0039
- ISSN
- 1071-6068
- eISSN
- 1080-6601
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2008
- Academic Unit
- English; Interdisciplinary Studies Program
- Record Identifier
- 9984398049902771
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