Redefining Modernism: Stuart Davis’s Cold War Champion series

Stuart Davis’s Champion paintings of the 1950s and ‘60s re-examine and re-conceptualize early modernism, adapting it to a new environment, by defining an esthetics of inter-relations: with his own earlier works, with French and American modernism, and with the visual environment of popular culture,...

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Main Author: Kamila Benayada
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Language:English
Published: Institut des Amériques 2018-07-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/2385
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