Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
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Review "This engaging analysis of Davis’s place in abstraction and in American painting is an important addition to the literature on American art. Summing up: ★ ★ ★ Highly recommend” -Choice "The catalog for the exhibition is a quietly luxurious affair. The pictures stand out in good, big reproductions, each on its own otherwise empty page. Haskell’s essay on all aspects of Davis’s career lucidly picks up the many strands, and Harry Cooper, writing on the painter’s way of continually reworking his earlier pictures – or making essentially an art about art- presents a Davis who is often lost sight of: an aesthete-engineer who could be entirely oblivious of his time and place. The highlight of this catalog, however, is a book-length chronology- at times going by the month, even the week- that Haskell has compiled. Her “A Chronicle” forms the fullest biography we have of the painter." ―New York Review Books Read more
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This is a great book with magnificent reproductions of Stuart Davis's paintings, insightful essays and the most comprehensive chronological timeline for an artist that I've ever read. (The first 50 pages or so are the introduction and essays, with small color reproductions of the paintings. Then the next 100 pages or so are color plates, with one painting per page. Then the chronology is about 75 pages, with again small reproductions of relevant paintings.) Most paintings in the book are so colorful they are like visual Vitamin C. Just opening this book makes me feel more energetic. Production quality is excellent. If you like Stuart Davis's work, this book is a must-own.
