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Swing Landscape - Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,147
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Swing Landscape - Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural (Hardcover): Jennifer McComas

Swing Landscape - Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural (Hardcover)

Jennifer McComas; Contributions by Jody Patterson

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An insightful study of the progressive politics animating a great work of modernist mural painting In 1936 the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project commissioned Stuart Davis (1892-1964) to paint a mural for the Williamsburg Houses, a New York City housing project. Though the mural, Swing Landscape, was never installed in its intended location, it survives as an impressive testament to Davis's energetic, colorful brand of abstraction and the progressive politics that animated it. This study explores the painting, one of the greatest of twentieth-century America and arguably Davis's most ambitious work. This book challenges the prevailing tendency to separate Davis's leftist activism from his art and contextualizes Swing Landscape within 1930s abstract mural painting in New York, emphasizing the politics of abstraction. The book also offers the first comprehensive look at the Williamsburg mural commission, including works by Willem de Kooning, Ilya Bolotowsky, and others. The result is an indispensable resource on interwar modernism, mural painting, and urban development.

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Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2020
Authors: Jennifer McComas
Contributors: Jody Patterson
Dimensions: 279 x 241 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-25067-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Exhibition catalogues and specific collections
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
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LSN: 0-300-25067-3
Barcode: 9780300250671

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