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Barbara Haskell, Harry Cooper

Stuart Davis

In Full Swing

Stuart Davis
Hardcover
$ 65.00| £ 49.99

This book pays tribute to the mature work of Stuart Davis, a distinctly American artist who adapted European modernism to reflect the sights, sounds, and rhythms of popular culture.

Beginning in 1921, a series of creative breakthroughs led Davis away from figurative painting and toward a more abstract expression of the world he inhabited. Drawing upon his admiration for Cézanne, Léger, Picasso, and Seurat, Davis developed a style that would evolve over the next four decades to become a dominant force in postwar art. His visionary responses to modern life and culture both high and low remain relevant more than 50 years after his death. Focusing on the images and motifs that became hallmarks of his career, this book features approximately 100 works—from his paintings of tobacco packages of the early 1920s, the abstract Egg Beater series, and the WPA murals of the 1930s, to the majestic works of his last two decades. The authors take a critical approach to the development of Davis's art and theory, paying special attention to the impact his earlier work had upon his later masterpieces. They also discuss Davis’s unique ability to assimilate the lessons of Cubism as well as the imagery of popular culture, the aesthetics of advertising, and the sounds and rhythms of jazz—his great musical passion. Informed by previously unpublished primary documents, the detailed chronology is, in effect, the first Davis biography. Together, these elements create a vital portrait of an artist whose works hum with intelligence and energy.


Hardcover, Linen with jacket, 250 pages, 25,5 x 30,5 cm, 10.0 x 11.8 in, 143 color illustrations, 41 b/w illustrations
ISBN: 978-3-7913-5510-8
Published:
US June 01, 2016
UK May 02, 2016
Status of delivery: This title is available.

Biography

BARBARA HASKELL is Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. HARRY COOPER is Curator of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

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