Duality in Stuart Davis's 'Package deal', 1956

• Autores: Mariea Caudill Dennison
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 152, Nº 1290, 2010, págs. 609-612
• Idioma: inglés
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  • An analysis of the artist Stuart Davis's 1956 painting Package Deal. The gouache piece was published in the September 1956 issue of Fortune Magazine, after Davis was commissioned to create a work based on his observations of “a morning's haul from the supermarket.” The resulting work—which provided the impetus for at least two of Davis's major paintings—is deserving of analysis in its own right for the way in which it extends the artist's pattern of incorporating words into his works, illuminates his relationship with Pop art, and suggests his reliance upon American slang for subject-matter. The painting is characterized by an emergent pattern in which Davis paints words that were derived from labels but that were also part of 1950s American slang or “jive.” Hence it is possible that the title of Davis's work alludes to the way in which a word with two or more meanings could be considered a “package deal.”