McComas, Jennifer
Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural
- ISBN 13:
- 9780300250671
- author:
- McComas, Jennifer
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Yale University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 164
- Dimensions:
- 27.9 x 24.1 x 1.5 centimeters (0
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Art, Individual Artist,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Swing Landscape: A Study of Modernist Mural Painting This 2020 study explores one of the greatest works of twentieth-century American art, Stuart Davis's mural painting Swing Landscape. Commissioned by the Works Progress Administration in 1936, the painting was intended for a New York City housing project but survives as an impressive testament to Davis's energetic and colorful style. The book challenges the prevailing tendency to separate Davis's leftist activism from his art, instead contextualizing Swing Landscape within the broader landscape of abstract mural painting in 1930s New York. It also offers a comprehensive look at the Williamsburg mural commission, featuring works by notable artists such as Willem de Kooning and Ilya Bolotowsky. Published in association with the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, this book is an indispensable resource on interwar modernism, mural painting, and urban development.
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