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Stuart Davis
Rudi H. Fuchs, Lewis C. Kachur, Stuart Davis, National Museum of American Art (U. S.)
Bulfinch Press
Bulfinch Press
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...
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Walker Evans & Company
Peter Galassi, Glenn Lowry, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Walker Evans' radical photography of the 1930s demonstrated that unembellished photographic fact could serve as a highly poetic language. These works expanded the potential of the art of photography and at the same time defined a lasting iconography...
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Stuart Davis in Gloucester (The Art Profile Series)
Karen Wilkin, Stuart Davis
Hard Press (MA)
Hard Press (MA)
A beautifully designed book exposing the influence of Gloucester, Massachusetts on the art of Stuart Davis, a pricipal founder of American abstraction. Printed in conjunction with a traveling exposition of Davis work spanning 3 decades. Features an...
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Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde
Debra Bricker Balken, Jay Bochner, John Covert, Jean Crotti, Stuart Davis, Marius de Zayas, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Morton Schamberg, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Florine Stettheimer, John Storrs, Max Weber, Beatrice Wood, Marcel Duchamp, John Marin
D.A.P./American Federation of Arts
D.A.P./American Federation of Arts
When Duchamp moved from Paris to New York in 1915, he was disappointed by the predominantly nature-based abstraction he observed, publicly proclaiming that American artists were too dependent on outmoded European traditions and had overlooked their...
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Stuart Davis's Abstract Argot (The Essential Paintings)
William Wilson, Stuart Davis
Pomegranate
Pomegranate
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...
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