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“Photographers will learn to stop blushing if their photographs are considered simply as photographs.”—Alfred Stieglitz
Elsa became a baroness by marrying Baron von Freytag-Loringhoven and ‘quickly began to use her aristocratic title as an avant-garde weapon to assault bourgeois taste. She single-handedly presented futuristic fashion to the bohemians of Greenwich Village, scandalizing her neighbors by parading semi-nude along 14th Street, barely covered with feathers.’
Edison Diamond Disc Record introduced in October
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
California Alien Land Law prohibited “aliens ineligible to citizenship” from owning land or property
The first International Women’s Day on the last Sunday in February
The first modern crossword puzzle is published in The New York World’s Sunday supplement.
The term “isotope” coined by Frederick Soddy
Hans Geiger relates atomic number to nuclear charge & invents the Geiger counter
“She’s not a futurist,” said Marcel Duchamp of Elsa. “She is the future.”
Niels Bohr, quantum theory of atomic orbits
Apollinaire’s manifesto “Futurist Anti-Tradition” published in Lacerba
Papini and Soffici quarrel
Explorer Robert F. Scott is found dead after reaching the South Pole
Hollywood’s name is officially adopted
Hollywood
The “Black Fives” St. Christopher Club’s new manager introduces “scientific basketball” techniques and novel marketing promotions, leading the team to its first Colored Basketball World’s Championship.
Emma Goldman speaks on:
“War and the Sacred Right of Property”
“The Sham of Culture”
“The Misconceptions of Free Love”
“The Psychology of Anarchism”
Campbell’s Cream of Celery soup
The Oreo cookie
Peppermint Life Savers
The Baroness’s found object (Greenwich Village) “Enduring Ornament,” a rust-encrusted, 3-inch-diameter metal loop, ‘evokes a cumbersome, oversized engagement ring with an ominous-looking, baublelike appendage.’
Katherine Stinson becomes the first woman to fly the mail
Petals on a wet, black bough .
>>>>>British National Health Insurance begins dispensing health care
In fact, in 1913, W.E.B. DuBois described L.A. as a “wonderful place.”
>>>>Habibullah establishes the first state hospital in Afghanistan, in Kabul
H.D. and Richard Aldington marry at Kensington on October 18
Conversation by overhead line, 2,600 miles—New York to Salt Lake City
Birth of Robert Hayden
Muhammad bin Abubakar publishes the epic poem Utendi wa Liiyongo Fumo of the southeastern African oral tradition
Vivian Fine born
American popular social dance Ballin’ the Jack
Conversation by underground cable, 455 miles—Boston to Washington. D.C.
The world’s tallest building: “The Woolworth Building. State of the art in 1913, state of the future in 2000.”
The invention of Prada
Born: Gerald Ford, Red Skelton, Burt Lancaster
Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king’s horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.
Hedy Lamarr is born
General John ‘Black Jack’ Pershing’s U.S. troops kill at least 2,000 men, women, and children in Bud Bagsak, Philippines.
August 13 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley in Sheffield
August 15 - Start of Dublin Lockout, all trade union members dismissed
Mohandas Ghandi arrested while leading miners in march
César Vallejo begins writing poetry
Frost publishes his first book of poetry
Williams publishes his first collection of poems
“Why, I too am an Imagiste!”
Piglets, by Kazemir Malevich
The Bung, David and Vladimir Burliuk
With Gabrielle, Picabia is the only European artist to attend the Armory Show
New York to Berlin via telephone
The world’s largest train station, Grand Central Terminal opens
“Perhaps it will be the task of the artist as detached from aesthetic preoccupations, and as intent on the energetic as Marcel Duchamp to reconcile art and the people.”--Apollinaire
Edmund Husserl, Phenomenology
A Study of the Modern Evolution of Plastic Form by Marius de Zayas
“Here is the exact time-table of my daily life: Get up at 7:18 a.m.; inspired from 10:23 to 11:47. I lunch at 12:11 p.m. and leave the table at 12:14.”—Eric Satie’s The Day of a Musician
305 Lexington Avenue at 25th Street
On inauguration night, Woodrow Wilson avoids the Suffragette parade
Theodore Roosevelt skips Wilson’s inauguration to attend the Armory Show
Sigmund Freud publishes Totem and Taboo
Record high 6,745 immigrants arrive at Ellis Island on March 31
Suffragettes storm the Manchester Art Gallery, mutilating eight paintings.
Hans Holbein’s portrait of Thomas Cromwell—$235,000 to Henry Frick
Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2—$240 to F.C. Torey of San Francisco
“It is the sense of the Irrational as principle of existence. It is the divination of Chance. It is the apotheosis of the Intuitive. The Irrational is the groundwork of all existence.”—Benjamin de Casseres in Camera Work
“Shaving one’s head is like having a new love experience.”—The Baroness
British fear further attacks on national treasures.
Man Ray moves out of his parents’ house
Mexican civil war
The Smart Set publishes modern European writers
“The theories that modern art has brought forth are of equal importance with, if not more importance than its plastic proportions.”—Marius de Zayas
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