A volume on Stuart Davis, an American artist of the 20th century.
This book acted as the catalogue for the Met's Davis retrospective and includes essays by William C. Agee, Robert Hunter, Lewis Kachur, Diane Kelder, John R. l.ane, Lisa J. Servon and Karen Wiikin.
This book challenges the prevailing tendency to separate Davis’s leftist activism from his art and contextualizes Swing Landscape within 1930s abstract mural painting in New York, emphasizing the politics of abstraction.
The first to capture the full range of [Stuart Davis'] remarkable career, from the Armory Show of 1913 to his las brilliant works of the 1960s.
"Stuart Davis (1892-1964), once described as "the ace of America's Modernists," regarded drawing as central to his art. He believed that all his works were drawings, and developed his images...
Art. Biography. I want you to get some idea of the facts (physical) of painting. By physical facts I do not mean permanency of colors. By physical facts I mean...
Traces the development of the American painter and discusses his place in art history.
Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory