Swing LandscapeAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 8 September 2020
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An insightful study of the progressive politics animating a great work of modernist mural painting In 1936 the Works Progress Administrationâ?Ts Federal Art Project commissioned Stuart Davis (1892â?"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 Davisâ?Ts 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 Davisâ?Ts most ambitious work. A This book challenges the prevailing tendency to separate Davisâ?Ts 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. A 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 5â?"May 22, 2022) A
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