Swing landscape : Stuart Davis and the modernist mural

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Swing landscape : Stuart Davis and the modernist mural

Jennifer McComas ; with an essay by Jody Patterson

Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University , Yale University Press, c2020

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Exhibition catalogue

"The exhibition planned for fall 2020, was postponed for public health reasons related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The checklist of the exhibition reflects the works secured as of April 2020"--Title verso

Checklist of the exhibition: p. [125]-132

Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-151)

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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. Published in association with the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University Exhibition Schedule: Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University (February 5-May 22, 2022)

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