The fact that the 1912 exhibition had been curated to show the successive stages through which Cubism had transited, and that Du "Cubisme" had been published for the occasion, <answer>indicates the artists' intention of making their work comprehensible to a wide audience</answer> (art critics, art collectors, art dealers and the general public). Undoubtedly, due to the great success of the exhibition, Cubism became recognized as a tendency, genre or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal: a new avant-garde movement.
What did the 1912 exhiibtion of Cubism show?
indicates the artists' intention of making their work comprehensible to a wide audience