EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE SCULPTURE IN THE SPACE OF THE ARSENAL EXHIBITION OF 1913. PRO ET CONTRA. THE PROBLEM OF RECEPTION

The article is devoted to European avant-garde sculpture, presented in New York in February - March 1913 at the International Exhibition of Modern Art (“Armory Show”) and to the problem of its written and visual reception by professional communities and by New Yorkers. As a first approximation, the article analyzes the reaction of the press, which expressed the opinion of average New Yorkers, art critics, and professional communities to the exposition of European plastics. Emotional and sarcastic remarks, complemented by satirical illustrations, are the expected reaction of the Americans, who are used to reading the author's narrative, to the bold sculptures of European masters. An attempt is also made to reconstruct the visual reception of individual American sculptors participating in the Armory Show by analyzing their creative path before and after the landmark event in order to find traces of the possible influence of modernist European sculpture.