Early American Modernist Painting: 1910-1935

Arts & Photography

DAVIDSON, Abraham A.

History & Criticism

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Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keefe, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Alfred Stieglitz and Max Weber are some of the seminal artists discussed and contextualised in this account of one of the most fascinating periods in American painting.

Early American Modernist Painting, 1910-1935 (Icon Editions)

HarperCollins, Publishers

Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935

Da Capo Press

Here for the first time, is a study of an important body of Americans paintings from around 1800 and on into the twentieth century in which the scene depicted appears to be caught in the middle of a dream rather than based in palpable reality. In these visionary paintings the conjured-up world seems to be more deeply felt, is more authentic, more integrated, and more deeply moving than it is in mere fantastic paintings. Authentic visionary paintings was like a small stream meandering slowly beside the two great torrents of nineteen-century American painting: the one realist, the other insipidly ideal. Each of the painters studied in this book, whether in a few canvases or many, produced an art that was arrestingly individual for its time, and this art is well worth our interest and deeper appreciation today. The main artists discussed in this fascinating book are Erastus Salisbury Field, William Page, William Rimmer, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, George Fuller, Robert Loftin Newman, John Quidor, Edward Hicks, Elihu Vedder, John la Farge, George Inness, Ralph Albert Blakelock, Benjamin West, Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. Abraham Davidson is a Professor of Art History in the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. His articles have appeared in ARTnews, Art in America, Artforum, American Quarterly, and Art Quarterly, among others; and hes is the author of The Story of American Painting (1974).

The Eccentrics and Other American Visionary Painters

Plume

The Story of American Painting

Abrams

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Story of American Painting

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Abraham A. Davidson has been teaching Art History on the college level since 1963(and has written six books and many articles and reviews on American and Modern Art), but has been photographing seriously longer than that. Here are fifty-eight black and white photographs taken in a wide variety of places-Paris, Jerusalem, Vienna, London, Cork, San Juan, B'nai Brak, Killarney, New York, Myrtle Beach, Philadelphia, northern Michigan, Rockport (MA.), Reeds Beach (N.J.)-that he considers among his best. <hr> Davidson's book opens avenues of the past and appears to be a sort of photo journalism sans text. But the images are implicit even without a narrative.They introduce the viewer to personal experiences and demonstrate how one person looked upon the world during a life time. Some of the images command special attention where the author allows intimate glances into his own past. Those images, genuine mile stones, have special intrinsice artistic values. Especially moving are those documents, domestic snapshots, where the author allows us to enter into his private realm and shares happy memories of his past. Emotional sentiment competing with objectivity is the most significant legacy of this attractive volume. Dr.George T. Radan Professor Emeritus of Art History and Archaeology Villanova University <hr> Whether by abstract multiple exposure or by direct representation, as in the happy faces of Israeli yeshiva boys who conjure up the iconic image of starved Holocaust survivors, Davidson's work demonstrates that photography is capable of irony, mystery and depth. Eric Lager, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry <hr> PHOTOGRAPHS is the thinking man's book of pictures. Davidson depicts the intellectual and emotional depths of the human experience. He sensitively portrays the world around him, giving a personal perspective of his vision. Harold A. Mesibov

Abraham A. Davidson Photographs 1964-2004

Xlibris Corporation

Contemporary artist E. M. Saniga paints facets of life in and around his home in rural southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in a distinctive palette of modulated earth tones.  In this insightful analysis of Saniga's work, Abraham A. Davidson examines the major influences on his technique and his unique relationship with the countryside that he depicts.  Illustrated with forty examples of his painting, we see the inventive composition and unusual motifs that distinguish Saniga's strongly evocative style. His portraits focus on the independent women who ride and train dressage horses at a nearby facility.   Imaginatively eccentric elements are brought to play in spare still life studies: skunk cabbage in a bowl; a cup of peonies set against a whimsically invented wallpaper pattern; a mysterious juxtaposition of animal bones; eggs and fungus culled from the woods.  Perhaps the most striking in this series are his dramatic, yet dispassionate depictions of animal carcasses rendered with realistic clarity.  Saniga's tranquil landscapes capture the meditative atmosphere of the meadows and wooded terrain of the region, which also serve as the backdrop to his paintings of hunting dog trials and golf tournaments.   Mr. Davidson has included in this comprehensive study, an illuminating personal interview with the artist. The Paintings of E. M. Saniga is an absorbing analysis of his work that places Saniga in the context of the current contemporary art scene.

The Paintings of E. M. Saniga

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