Stuart Davis: In Full Swing

Davis, Stuart; Cooper, Harry, and Haskell, Barbara (Curated by)

ISBN 10: 0894684051 / ISBN 13: 9780894684050

Published by National Gallery of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; DelMonico Books/Prestel, Washington D.C. and New York, 2016

About this Item

ix, 250 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Hailed as a precursor of both pop art and contemporary abstraction, Stuart Davis captured the energy of mass culture and modern life. Beginning in 1921, a series of breakthroughs led him to develop a more abstract approach. Fusing American urban experience with European modernism, his style evolved over the next four decades to become a dominant force in postwar art. The book features some 100 works, from his 1921 paintings of tobacco packages to his abstract Egg Beater series of the late twenties, the ambitious WPA murals of the thirties, and the bold works of his last two decades, in which jagged shapes and bright colors tangle with vigorous calligraphy. The volume pays special attention to his transformative recycling of earlier works; and a chronology-drawing on previously unpublished sources-represents the most complete biography to date, painting a vivid picture of economic hardship, political activism, personal struggle, and eventual triumph." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Quotidian Truth: Stuart Davis's Idiosyncratic Modernism, by Barbara Haskell; Unfinished Business: Davis and the Dialect-X of Recursion, by Harry Cooper; Plates; Stuart Davis: A Chronicle, by Barbara Haskell; Selected Bibliography, by Sarah Humphreville; Checklist of the Exhibited Works. Size: 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
• Publisher: National Gallery of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; DelMonico Books/Prestel, Washington D.C. and New York
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0894684051
• ISBN 13: 9780894684050
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Collectible
• Seller catalogs:
  • Movements::Abstraction
  • Genre & Subject::Music
  • XXXL: Jumbo
  • New Books
  • USA::5. Modern, 1900-1945
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES

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Synopsis

This catalog accompanies the exhibition Stuart Davis: In Full Swing at the National Gallery of Art. Color illustrations. 288p. Measures 10x12 inches. This book pays tribute to the mature work of Stuart Davis (1892-1964), an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his Ashcan School pictures in the early years of the 20th century.....