Stuart Davis's Abstract Argot

Wilson, William

ISBN 10: 1566403162 / ISBN 13: 9781566403160

Published by Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 1993

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No printing history stated. Dust jacket portected in paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking.

Seller Inventory # 002417

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stuart Davis's Abstract Argot
• Publisher: Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566403162
• ISBN 13: 9781566403160
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

This book examines Davis s life and art in the context of their colorful, disturbed times. Thirty-six color plates mark his development from social realist to cosmopolitan Parisian expatriate and sophisticated distiller of the American spirit. In the 1920s and 1930s Davis welded the discoveries of the avant-garde school of Paris to the slangy realism of the Yankee Ashcan painters. The resulting style (which he called---with tongue in cheek---"Colonial Cubism") embodied the rhythm, sass, and ebullience of that most original art form, jazz. Davis made the sound of jazz visible in compositions of hard staccato lines and crisp colors.