Stuart Davis's painting and politics in the 1930s

• Autores: Jody Patterson
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 151, Nº 1276, 2009, págs. 465-468
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Stuart Davis, as well as being one of America's most accomplished modernist painters, was also one of the political left's most ardent artist-activists during the years of the Great Depression. While many leftist artists of the 1930s were skeptical about the capacity of modernist forms to carry socially relevant content, David claimed that an adherence to the formal development associated with bourgeois society did not compromise an alignment with the working class. In addition to his abstract works, Davis produced a number of pieces that addressed political and social questions head on. Furthermore, his purely abstract pieces carried a political charge of their own, with Davis conceiving his work as playing a vital role in the sociopolitical sphere regardless of the degree of abstraction that characterized his 1930s output. While some valuable analyses have been made of the broader political implications of Davis's approach to form ad content, much work remains to be done on the subject.