Editing Cubism (section)

====Salon d'Automne====
The Cubist contribution to the [[Salon d'Automne#1912.2C political ramifications|1912 Salon d'Automne]] created scandal regarding the use of government owned buildings, such as the [[Grand Palais]], to exhibit such artwork. The indignation of the politician [[Jean Pierre Philippe Lampué]] made the front page of ''Le Journal'', 5 October 1912.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7625001c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904034853/http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7625001c/f1.image|url-status=dead|title=Le Journal|date=October 5, 1912|archive-date=September 4, 2015|website=Gallica}}</ref> The controversy spread to the Municipal Council of Paris, leading to a debate in the Chambre des Députés about the use of public funds to provide the venue for such art.<ref name="Débats parlementaires">[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6470818j/f8.image.r=1912%20%20Salon%20d%27Automne%20%20Chambre%20des%20d%C3%A9put%C3%A9s%20%20cubiste%20Assembl%C3%A9e%20Nationale.langFR Journal officiel de la République française. Débats parlementaires. Chambre des députés, 3 Décembre 1912, pp. 2924–2929. Bibliothèque et Archives de l'Assemblée nationale, 2012–7516] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904034853/http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6470818j/f8.image.r=1912%20%20Salon%20d%27Automne%20%20Chambre%20des%20d%C3%A9put%C3%A9s%20%20cubiste%20Assembl%C3%A9e%20Nationale.langFR |date=2015-09-04 }}. {{ISSN|1270-5942}}</ref> The Cubists were defended by the Socialist deputy, [[Marcel Sembat]].<ref name="Débats parlementaires" /><ref name="Patrick F. Barrer">Patrick F. Barrer: ''Quand l'art du XXe siècle était conçu par les inconnus'', pp. 93–101, gives an account of the debate.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.peterbrooke.org.uk/a&r/chronology|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522231116/http://www.peterbrooke.org.uk/a%26r/chronology|url-status=dead|title=biography|archive-date=May 22, 2013|website=www.peterbrooke.org.uk}}</ref>

It was against this background of public anger that Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes wrote ''[[Du "Cubisme"]]'' (published by Eugène Figuière in 1912, translated to English and Russian in 1913).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fondationgleizes.fr/albert-gleizes-oeuvre.html|title=Albert-Gleizes-œuvre|date=September 18, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070918235710/http://www.fondationgleizes.fr/albert-gleizes-oeuvre.html|archive-date=2007-09-18}}</ref> Among the works exhibited were [[Henri Le Fauconnier|Le Fauconnier]]'s vast composition ''Les Montagnards attaqués par des ours (Mountaineers Attacked by Bears)'' now at Rhode Island School of Design Museum, [[Joseph Csaky]]'s ''Deux Femme, Two Women'' (a sculpture now lost), in addition to the highly abstract paintings by Kupka, ''Amorpha'' (The National Gallery, Prague), and [[Picabia]], ''[[The Spring|La Source (The Spring)]]'' (Museum of Modern Art, New York).