Gene Davis, a memorial exhibition
By: Jacquelyn D. Serwer, with essays by Douglas Davis and Donald Kuspit.
Contributors: Davis, Gene, 1920-; National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Published for the National Museum of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Davis, Gene, 1920-  -- Exhibitions.; Davis, Gene, 1920-  -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: "Jacquelyn Serwer, assistant curator at the National Museum of American Art, gives an overview of Davis's thirty-five-year career. Artist and author Douglas Davis, who serves as critic for Newsweek magazine, discusses how Davis's work relates to issues of the avant-garde, postmodernism, and originality. Donald Kuspit, professor of art history at SUNY at Stony Brook, focuses on the stripe paintings. Kuspit, who sees music as a metaphor by which to understand the stripes' perceptual and emotional effects, examines the improvisational quality of Davis's work."--Page 3 of cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 187-190.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., Feb. 27-May 17, 1987.