SUSPICIOUS MINDS From: Artforum | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: Roberts, Jennifer L | Copyright Artforum Inc. Dec 2004/Jan 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

SUSPICIOUS MINDS

Jennifer L. Roberts

LOOKING ASKANCE: SKEPTICISM AND AMERICAN ART FROM EAKINS TO DUCHAMP BY MICHAEL LEJA BERKELEY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS. 300 PAGES. $50.

There comes a point in every American art survey course when the tale of the Armory Show must be told. The famed 1913 exhibition introduced throngs of American viewers to the work of the European modernists Cézanne, Matisse, Braque, Picasso, Kandinsky, and, most notoriously, Duchamp, whose cubo-...

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