Framing the Question
Three books chart divergent art-historical approaches
Abstraction and the Holocaust
by Mark Godfrey
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ERIC BANKS on ANI BOYAJIAN and MARK RUTKOSKI's Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné
We tend to remember the painter Stuart Davis as a notable figure in the American art world spanning the Ash Can School and the Park Avenue Cubists, that prelapsarian period antedating the irruptive force of Abstract Expressionism and the surging currents of artmaking that followed. Like many on-the-fly judgments, this one is correct in at least one sense: Davis did experience most of the high-water moments of the New York art world from 1913, when the Armory Show introduced its viewers to the exciting developments taking place overseas, until his death in 1964. In fact, it may come as a surprise to learn that Davis exhibited five watercolors in the Armory Show at the tender age of twenty—he had left high school at sixteen to study
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