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Stuart Davis : in full swing

Title
Stuart Davis : in full swing / Harry Cooper, Barbara Haskell.
Publication
Washington : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Whitney Museum of American Art ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, [2016]
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Additional Authors
  • Cooper, Harry, 1959-
  • Haskell, Barbara
  • Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964.
  • National Gallery of Art (U.S.), organizer, host institution
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, organizer, host institution
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, host institution
  • Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, host institution
Description
ix, 250 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm
Summary
"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volume pays special attention to his transformative recycling of earlier works; and a chronology-drawing on previously unpublished sources-represents the most complete biography to date, painting a vivid picture of economic hardship, political activism, personal struggle, and eventual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"--
Subject
  • Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964 > Exhibitions
  • Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964
  • Jazz in art > Exhibitions
  • ART / Individual Artists / Monographs
  • Jazz in art
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index.
Contents
Quotidian Truth : Stuart Davis's Idiosyncratic Modernism / Barbara Haskell -- Unfinished Business : Davis and the Dialect-X of Recursion / Harry Cooper -- Plates -- Stuart Davis : A Chronicle / Barbara Haskell -- Selected Bibliography / Sarah Humphreville -- Checklist of the Exhibited Works.
Call Number
JQG 16-496
ISBN
  • 9783791355108 (hardback)
  • 3791355104 (hardback)
  • 9780894684050 (soft cover)
  • 0894684051 (soft cover)
LCCN
2015050067
OCLC
931642827
Title
Stuart Davis : in full swing / Harry Cooper, Barbara Haskell.
Publisher
Washington : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Whitney Museum of American Art ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, [2016]
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index.
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Added Author
Cooper, Harry, 1959- author.
Haskell, Barbara, author.
Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964. Works. Selections.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.), organizer, host institution.
Whitney Museum of American Art, organizer, host institution.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, host institution.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQG 16-496
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