Milton Avery: The Late Paintings - Hardcover

Hobbs, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810942747 ISBN 13: 9780810942745

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2001

Synopsis

The painter Milton Avery is the among the most beloved of American artists. A cool modernist, he is known chiefly for his vividly colored landscapes and intimate scenes of family life. Long overshadowed by Abstract Expressionism, his art has recently begun to be reassessed and its place in the history of modernism restored.
Robert Hobbs explores the development of Avery's painting in this crucial phase and draws insightful connections between it and Wallace Stevens's innovative poetry, written during the same period. This comparison will intrigue devotees of American poetry and American art.
A 1958 essay on Avery by the renowned critic Clement Greenberg, reprinted here, places the artist in the vanguard of an art that unites abstraction and representation, American ingenuity and an international sensibility. Altogether, this book takes a many-faceted approach to the presentation of an exquisite group of artworks.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Exhibition Schedule: Milwaukee Art Museum: Nov. 30, 2001-Jan. 27, 2002; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach: Feb. 8-May 5, 2002

About the Author:

Robert Hobbs holds the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0810942747
• ISBN 13: 9780810942745
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112