Stuart Davis: Essays and references

Stuart Davis: Essays and references

Author: William C. Agee

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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Collected in three volumes, this is the highly anticipated, definitive reference on Stuart Daviss paintings, watercolors, drawings, and published illustrations.


Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis

Author: Harry Cooper

Publisher: Prestel

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783791355108

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"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volume pays special attention to his transformative recycling of earlier works; and a chronology-drawing on previously unpublished sources-represents the most complete biography to date, painting a vivid picture of economic hardship, political activism, personal struggle, and eventual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"--


Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis

Author: Lowery Stokes Sims

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0870996274

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A volume on Stuart Davis, an American artist of the 20th century. He forged a personal and varied iconography inspired by the upheaval of the city, the tranquility of the seaside, industry and the automobile, cafe society, sports, jazz music and his year-long stay in Paris.


Frames of Reference

Frames of Reference

Author: Whitney Museum of American Art

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780520218871

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A survey of the best of American art tours the hallowed halls of the Whitney Museum presenting the works of Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn, and George Bellows, with essays by John Updike, George Plimpton, Alan Dershowitz, and others.


Art and Appetite

Art and Appetite

Author: Annelise K. Madsen

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-12-10

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0300196237

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" Food has always been an important source of knowledge about culture and society. Art and Appetite takes a fascinating new look at depictions of food in American art, demonstrating that the artists' representations of edibles offer thoughtful reflection on the cultural, political, economic, and social moments in which they were created. Using food as an emblem, artists were able to both celebrate and critique their society, expressing ideas relating to politics, race, class, gender, and commerce. Focusing on the late 18th century through the Pop artists of the 20th century, this lively publication investigates the many meanings and interpretations of eating in America. Richly illustrated, Art and Appetite features still life and trompe l'oeil painting, sculpture, and other works by such celebrated artists as William Merritt Chase, John Singleton Copley, Elizabeth Paxton, Norman Bel Geddes, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Alice Neel, Wayne Thiebaud, Roy Lichtenstein, and many more. Essays by leading experts address topics including the horticultural and botanical underpinnings of still-life paintings, the history of alcohol consumption in the United States, Thanksgiving, and food in the world of Pop art. In addition to the images and essays, this book includes a selection of 18th- and 19th-century recipes for all-American dishes including molasses cake, stewed terrapin, rice blancmange, and roast calf's head. "--


Miraculous Simplicity: Essays on R.s. Thomas (c)

Miraculous Simplicity: Essays on R.s. Thomas (c)

Author: William Virgil Davis

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 1901

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781610752664

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Pondering now the being and nature of God, now the mystery of time, now the assault of contemporary lifestyles on the natural world, R.S. Thomas's poetry and prose reflects his Welsh heritage and his determination to be Welsh. Moved by his own personal attractions to the work of Thomas and guided by his careful reading of it, William V. Davis brings us this excellent collection of essays exploring the distinguished yet controversial poet-priest.


Stuart Davis's Abstract Argot

Stuart Davis's Abstract Argot

Author: William R. Wilson

Publisher: Pomegranate

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1566403162

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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.


Stuart Little

Stuart Little

Author: E. B. White

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2015-03-17

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0062408216

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The classic story by E. B. White, author of the Newbery Honor Book Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan, about one small mouse on a very big adventure. Now available as an ebook! Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure. Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from her nest. Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for the very first time in his life. He finds adventure aplenty. But will he find his friend? Stuart Little joins E. B. White favorites Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan as classic illustrated novels that continue to speak to today's readers. Whether you curl up with your young reader to share these books or hand them off for independent reading, you are helping to create what are likely to be all-time favorite reading memories.


Artists & Prints

Artists & Prints

Author: Deborah Wye

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780870701252

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Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.


A Transatlantic Avant-garde

A Transatlantic Avant-garde

Author: Sophie Lévy

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0520242076

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Catalog of an exhibition held at Musee d'Art Americain Giverny, France, Aug. 31-Nov. 30, 2003; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 18, 2003-Mar. 28, 2004; and Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, April 17-June 27, 2004.