Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné - Hardcover

Boyajian, Ani; Rutkoski, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300109814 ISBN 13: 9780300109818

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Stuart Davis (1892-1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career, first with his Ashcan works and then with his highly personal version of Cubism, which firmly established American modernism as a force that could rival its European counterpart. Over the course of six decades, Davis produced artworks that drew inspiration from the European modernists but were deeply rooted in the popular culture of the United States. Jazz music and hipster talk, vaudeville stages, city streetscapes, New England fishing villages, gasoline stations, store fronts, and commercial packaging and advertising images were among the sources that infused his art with energy, bringing crisp edges, radiant color, and syncopated rhythms to a vast body of paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Documenting the life's work of this prolific and highly influential artist-who affected almost every development in American art from second-generation Ashcan realism around 1912 to color field and geometric painting in the 1960s-is a monumental achievement. In these three volumes, the editors have catalogued 1,749 artworks by the artist-including more than 600 works never previously illustrated-providing extensive documentation and information about each one. A detailed chronology of Davis's life, as well as an enlightening discussion of the compositional relationship between certain works spanning his oeuvre, rounds out this study. Exquisitely designed and produced, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne will be the definitive reference on the artist's work for many years to come. Volume I: Essays and References Volume II: Catalogue Entries 1-1323 Volume III: Catalogue Entries 1324-1749

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Review

"This catalogue ... includes 1,749 works, of which some six hundred have never before been illustrated."
--David Anfam, Burlington, July 2009

About the Author

Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski are the editors of the Stuart Davis catalogue raisonne project. William C. Agee is Professor of Art History at Hunter College, The City University of New York. Karen Wilkin has written numerous books on 20th-century art, including Color as Field.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300109814
• ISBN 13: 9780300109818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 3