Research Catalog

Title

Milton Avery & the end of modernism / by Karl Emil WIllers.

Author

Willers, Karl Emil.

Publication

New Paltz, N.Y. : Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz ; Roslyn Harbor, N.Y.^^: Nassau County Museum of Art, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Avery, Milton, 1885-1965
• Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.
• Nassau County Museum of Art.
• Neuberger Museum of Art.

Description

72 p. : col. ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

"Milton Avery and the End of Modernism looks at work by the artist who brought the sketch, with its spontaneity, movement, and fleetingness, to the status of a finished painting. The works reproduced in this exhibition catalog feature Avery's intense saturated color fields, the simplification of form, and figures that emphasize the flatness of canvas surface. In the four chapters that open the catalog, Karl Emil Willers takes a concerted look at the contributions of Milton Avery as a significant figurative painter from the late 1920s through the early 1960s, and at the development of Avery's signature paintings from his idiosyncratic drawing style that captures the essence of a person, place, or time. Placing Avery's work within a long history of modernist practice that recognizes the artist's sketch as a "final, complete and a self-sufficient work of art," Willers argues that, within the emergence of his avant-garde style, Avery can be seen as one of the preeminent American painters of his time, exerting great influence among both his contemporaries and subsequent generations of artists." -- SUNY Press

Alternative Title

Milton Avery and the end of modernism

Subject

• Avery, Milton, 1885-1965 > Exhibitions
• Modernism (Art) > United States > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This catalogue essay was originally developed as a series of lectures accompanying the exhibition 'Milton Avery: Paintings from the Collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art', held at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, January 28-May 30, 2004. The exhibition was expanded and the accompanying catalogue produced for the exhibition 'Milton Avery & the End of Modernism' at the Nassau County Museum of Art, January 22-May 8, 2011."--P. [2] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Chapter I Formative years : Early works ; A mature style ; A visual humor -- Chapter II Being there : Subjective subjects ; The anti-spectacular ; Light and serenity -- Chapter III Avery working : Working on paper ; Working on canvas -- Chapter IV The late works : Paintings in the 1940s ; Paintings in the 1950s ; Avery and Abstract Expressionism.

ISBN

• 9780615401812
• 0615401813

LCCN

^^2010942148

OCLC

• 719430696
• SCSB-10388539

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library