Stuart Davis

(American Art Library). Taking into account the artist's formative response to black American music - how it reshaped his understanding of what art could be and altered his personal "take" on European modernism, the book presents a comprehensive selection of Davis's paintings chosen from all phases of his work. Most of these images are reproduced at full-page size and in color - along with individual commentaries on many of the plates, a chronology of the artist's life, and selected bibliography. 124 illus., 52 full-color plates. 160p.