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020 $a9783791355108 (hbk.) :$cNT$2275
082 04$a750.9$222
100 1 $aCooper, Harry,$d1959-.
245 10$aStuart Davis :$bin full swing /$cHarry Cooper, Barbara Haskell.
246 30$aIn full swing.
260 $aWashington :$bNational Gallery of Art ; New York :$c[2016]$bWhitney Museum of American Art ; Munich ; New York :$bDelMonico Books/Prestel,
300 $aix, 250 pages :$billustrations ;$c32 cm.
505 0 $a"Hailed as a precursor of both pop art and contemporary abstraction, Stuart Davis captured the energy of mass culture and modern life. Beginning in 1921, a series of breakthroughs led him to develop a more abstract approach. Fusing American urban experience with European modernism, his style evolved over the next four decades to become a dominant force in postwar art. The book features some 100 works, from his 1921 paintings of tobacco packages to his abstract Egg Beater series of the late twenties, the ambitious WPA murals of the thirties, and the bold works of his last two decades, in which jagged shapes and bright colors tangle with vigorous calligraphy. The volume pays special attention tohis transformative recycling of earlier works; and a chronology-drawing on previously unpublished sources-represents the most complete biography to date, painting a vivid picture of economic hardship, political activism, personal struggle, and eventual triumph"-- Provided by publisher.
600 10$aDavis, Stuart,$d1892-1964$vExhibitions.
650 0$aJazz in art$vExhibitions.