Tape repair to obverse of dust jacket. Exhibition of 1998 at Washington's National Museum of American Art; essays by Rudi H. Fuchs, Lewis C. Kachur, Diane Kelder, and others; illustrated in color; 207pp. A tight, clean copy in bright dust jacket. Size: 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Stuart Davis

Publisher

Little, Brown And Co., Boston

Publication Date

1997

Language

English

ISBN 10

0821225170

ISBN 13

9780821225172

Binding

Hard Cover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

VG++

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Synopsis

Traces the development of the American painter and discusses his place in art history

Review

The editor of this startling book claims that Stuart Davis made the "first truly original American avant-garde painting." Niggling arguments aside, it finally gives Davis his due, which has always been difficult. His most familiar paintings are so flatly poster-like that they prefigure many similarly cool movements, from conceptual to pop art, but without the intellectual or humorous trappings of the latter. The early works reproduced here show a sensitive side of Davis. In a 1912 self-portrait, for example, the artist looks troubled and tubercular, glancing over his shoulder at a distant female figure. The colors are wintry, the paint thickly applied. Later, when Davis discovers modernism, it is as if he embraces the logic of abstraction as an antidote to the deeper emotions of his youth. This comprehensive volume gives readers enough information to decide for themselves. --Margaret Moorman

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