Author: Serwer, Jacquelyn Days
Title: Gene Davis: A Memorial Exhibition
Description: 1987. Hardcover. Color pictorial printed dustjacket over red cloth. 191 pp. 24 bw, 90 color plates. 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. Contents as follows: Foreword / Charles C. Eldredge -- Gene Davis: dialogues between past and present / Jacquelyn D. Serwer -- Gene Davis given away: the necesity of invention / Douglas Davis -- A perfect music: Gene Davis's stripes / Donald Kuspit -- Catalogue -- Gestural paintings and drawings -- Stripes -- Planks and micro-paintings -- Symbol works and related paintings -- Collages -- Profiles -- Chronology -- Selected exhibitions -- Selected bibliography -- Lenders to the exhibition. One of the pioneering color abstractionists. Extensive chronology, essays by Jacquelyn D. Serwer (Gene Davis: Dialogues Between Past and Present), Douglas Davis (Gene Davis Given Away: The Necessity of Invention) and Donald Kuspit (A Perfect Music: Gene Davis' Stripes). Also lists selected exhibitions and contains a selected bibliography. Large plates. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Feb. 27 to May 17, 1987. VG/vg .

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