Gene Davis :
a memorial exhibition /
Jacquelyn D. Serwer ; with essays by Douglas Davis and Donald Kuspit
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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℗♭1987
Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, [1987]
- Subjects
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Davis, Gene,
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Davis, Gene, /
1920-1985.
Davis, Gene,
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Davis, Gene, /
1920-1985
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Davis, Gene, / 1920-1985 /
Criticism and interpretation
Davis, Gene,
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Davis, Gene, /
1920-1985
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Davis, Gene, / 1920-1985 /
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Summary
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"Jacquelyn Serwer, assistant curator at the National Museum of American Art, gives an overview of Davis's thirty-five-year career. Artist and author Douglas Davis, who serves as critic for Newsweek magazine, discusses how Davis's work relates to issues of the avant-garde, postmodernism, and originality. Donald Kuspit, professor of art history at SUNY at Stony Brook, focuses on the stripe paintings. Kuspit, who sees music as a metaphor by which to understand the stripes' perceptual and emotional effects, examines the improvisational quality of Davis's work."--Page 3 of cover
- Note
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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., Feb. 27-May 17, 1987
- Physical Description
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191 pages :
illustrations (some color) ;
26 x 29 cm
- ISBN
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9780874748550
0874748550
9780874748543
0874748542
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