Paintings and Drawings of John Dos Passos: A Collection and Study

Donald Pizer, Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus, Tulane University. After faculty positions at University of North Carolina affiliates and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service-Qatar, Lisa Nanney co-edited and co-authored the 2017 study of John Dos Passos’s visual works, The Paintings and Drawings of John Dos Passos: A Collection and Study (Clemson University Press). Her current book, John Dos Passos and Cinema (2019), further explores the intersection of his narrative methods and the visual arts by investigating his writing directly for the cinema, his translation of modernist fictional techniques to the screen, and the ways these forays into film writing were shaped by his re-evaluation of the Left at a pivotal point in his career. Nanney is also the author of John Dos Passos Revisited (Macmillan Press, 1998), a critical biography. Richard Layman, President, Bruccoli Clark Layman; Managing Director, Layman Poupard Publishing, LLP.

Reviews‘A comprehensive record and interpretation of Dos Passos’ artwork… of interest both to art historians and literary critics.’Elizabeth A. Petrino, American Literary Realism

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPaintings and Drawings Included in this Volume: A Descriptive ListPreface to Section 1: Early Work 1918–20Preface to Section 2: The Middle East and Morocco 1921–22, 1926Preface to Section 3: Paris 1921–25Preface to Section 4: New York 1920–24Preface to Section 5: New York: Nudes 1920–23Preface to Section 6: Theater Designs 1925–28Preface to Section 7: Mexico 1926–32Preface to Section 8: Later Work 1930–70Preface to Section 9: PortraitsPreface to Section 10: Sea Fronts and HarborsPreface to Section 11: Still LifesPreface to Section 12: Studies in MotionPreface to Section 13: Abstractions and Other Experimental ModesWords and Images: The Visual Art of John Dos PassosThe Artwork of John Dos PassosNotesWorks CitedIndex