"STUART DAVIS" par Philip RYLANDS. Editions Electa, Milan en collaboration avec la Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. 1997. Imprimé en Italie. Petit in-4, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée illustrée en couleurs. 208 pages. Textes en anglais de Ben Sidran, Karen Wilkin, Lewis Kachur, Rudi Fuchs, Federica Pirani, Wayne L. Roosa, préface de Philip Rylands, illustré de nombreuses reproductions photographiques, des vignettes noir & blanc in-texte ainsi que 62 planches couleurs. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme itinérante aux : Peggy Guggenheim Collection de Venise du 07 Juin au 05 octobre 1997 ; Palazzo delle Esposizioni de Rome du 22 Octobre 1997 au 12 Janvier 1998 ; Stedelijk Museum d'Amsterdam du 1er Février au 19 Avril 1998 ; National Museum of American Art de Washington D.C. du 22 Mai au 07 Septembre 1998.

 

"Stuart Davis is an American original, a home-grown Cubist whose irreverent paintings resemble no one else's. He stands alone among the U.S. painters of his generation, his uninhibited work declaring its independence equally from the nationalist cant and social realism of his conservative contemporaries and the tasteful geometry of his more adventurous ones. Davis's pictures, with their boisterous sharp-edged shapes, their razzle-dazzle color, and their irrepressible vernacular spirit, are unmistakably his own, typical of no trend or movement, yet at the same time their energy, speed, and disregard of established rules make them emblematic of the best aspects of modern American culture. Like that quintessentially American invention jazz – which Davis loved as passionately as he did painting – his images depend on improvisation and dissonance; like jazz, too, they are at once unfettred, spontaneous, and firmly rooted in everyday experience…" Extrait de "stuart Davis: American Painter" par Karen Wilkin.

 

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