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