The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity.
Language: English
Published by The American Federation of Arts in Association with Harry N. Abrams., New York, 1992
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143pp, index, biliog, chronolgy, 110 ills (40 col). Or grey cloth in jacket. As new copy. Davis was once described as the ace of America's Modernists, and regarded drawing as central to his art. He believed that all his works were drawings and developed his images as carefully adjusted black and white "configurations" which he translated to "color-space compositions" only at the last stage of the painting procedure. This volume examines the full range of Davis' activity as draftsman, from early naturalistic drawings in the manner of the Ashcan School to the economical near abstractions of his maturity. Published to coincide with a 1993 exhibition of the same name. Size: Oblong 4to.
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- Title
- The Drawings of Stuart Davis: The Amazing Continuity.
- Author
- Wilkin, Karen & Kachur, Lewis.
- Publisher
- The American Federation of Arts in Association with Harry N. Abrams., New York
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0810932156
- ISBN 13
- 9780810932159
- Illustrator
- Profusely Illustrated
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Art and the Arts
This volume examines, for the first time, the full range of Davis's activity as a draftsman, from his early naturalistic drawings in the manner of the Ashcan School to the economical near-abstractions of his maturity. A broad interpretation of the notion of drawing, in keeping with Davis's own understanding of the term, allows the inclusion of works on paper in a variety of mediums, including watercolors, gouaches, and some late black-and-white drawings on canvas.
Included as well are selections from Davis's extensive writings, which contain innumerable references to drawing: attempts to define what constitutes a good drawing, and discussions of the role of drawing in his work and in the formulation of his complex theories of composition. Just as important, Davis's notebooks contain many images, ranging from diagrams that illustrate theory to fully developed, self-sufficient drawings.
Karen Wilkin and Lewis C. Kachur, both eminent Davis scholars, draw heavily on his unpublished writings and less well-known images to deepen our understanding of Davis and of American modernism in its formative years.
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