Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural,Used

Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural,Used

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An insightful study of the progressive politics animating a great work of modernist mural paintingIn 1936 the Works Progress Administrations Federal Art Project commissioned Stuart Davis (18921964) 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 Daviss energetic, colorful brand of abstraction and the progressive politics that animated it. This study explores the painting, one of the greatest of twentiethcentury America and arguably Daviss most ambitious work.This book challenges the prevailing tendency to separate Daviss 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 UniversityExhibition Schedule: Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University(February 5May 22, 2022)

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