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2006 · 350918 — New Haven: Yale University Press 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This beautifully illustrated book highlights the unique history of The Société Anonyme Inc. an organization founded in 1920 by the artists Katherine S. Dreier 1877–1952 Marcel Duchamp 1887–1968 and Man Ray 1890–1976. As America’s first “experimental museum†for modern art the Société Anonyme provided a means for artists rather than historians to chronicle the rise of modernism. Led by Dreier and Duchamp the group eventually assembled a collection of more than one thousand artworks which it presented to the public in a variety of innovative programs publications and exhibitions. The incredible collection of the Société Anonyme now belongs to the Yale University Art Gallery a gift from the Société and Dreier. It features the work of more than one hundred artists many of whom are among the century’s most renowned—including Jean Arp Duchamp Max Ernst Wassily Kandinsky Paul Klee El Lissitzky Piet Mondrian Man Ray Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Stella—as well as works by lesser-known artists whose contributions to modernism are substantial. With new archival information including personal correspondence between Dreier and the artists whose work she assembled a host of previously unpublished images essays by leading scholars and an interview with artists Robert and Sylvia Mangold about the contemporary significance of this collection this fascinating book is essential to our understanding of the reception and interpretation of modernism in America. Record # 350918 Yale University Press hardcover