Milton Avery : the late paintings / Robert Hobbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobbs, Robert Carleton, 1946-

Contributor:

Avery, Milton, 1885-1965.

American Federation of Arts.

Milwaukee Art Museum.

Norton Museum of Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Avery, Milton, 1885-1965--Exhibitions.

Avery, Milton.

Avery, Milton, 1885-1965--Criticism and interpretation.

Avery, Milton, 1885-1965.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harry N. Abrams in association with the American Federation of Arts, 2001.

Summary:

Milton Avery's late paintings, created between 1947 and 1963, stand at the nexus of figurative modernism and Abstract Expressionism. Frequently viewed as the last of the great American figurative painters, Avery, as this book argues, provides a key to understanding the artists of the second half of the American century.

This volume accompanies the first exhibition of Avery's art since the popular 1982 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art; it is the first book on Avery in over a decade. A 1958 essay by the seminal critic Clement Greenberg provides a valuable period context, while the new text by Robert Hobbs includes an insightful connection between Avery's painting and the lyrical modernism of Wallace Stevens's poetry, which will intrigue lovers of American poetry as well as American art.

This book, and the exhibition that it accompanies, were organized by the American Federation of Arts.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and held at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 30, 2001-Jan. 27, 2002 and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 15-May 12, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107) and index.

ISBN:

0810942747

1885444206

OCLC:

45558858