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Illustrated by over 50 of Edward Hopper's most powerful evocations of New York, Avis Berman's essay explores how Hopper and his work illuminate each other by analyzing what his New York is - and is not. Ever the contrarian, he offers an alternative to what other American artists seized on - the new, the gigantic, the technologically exciting. Hopper stayed away from tourist attractions or landmarks of the city's glamorous skyline. His preference for nondescript vernacular buildings is emblematic of the larger Hopper paradox: he makes emptiness full, silence articulate, banality intense, plainness mysterious, and tawdriness noble.

Watkins, Muybridge, Prendergast, Sloan, Hopper, O'Keeffe, Sheeler, Hofmann, Calder, Bourke-White, Evans, Frank, Andre, Puryear, LeWitt, Judd, and Stella, to name a handful. Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years is the first extensive documentation of the museum and its collection. Essays by Susan C. Faxon, associate director and curator, Avis Berman, independent writer and art historian, and Jock Reynolds, director of the Addison, discuss the development of the.

A champion of artists, the first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a pivotal influence on the way American art has been perceived and received, Juliana Force was a creative and flamboyant personality who dominated the New York art world for decades. Yet her life, an American success story of the most classic type, has never been chronicled. In this authoritative biography, Avis Berman focuses long-overdue attention on a dynamic woman who claimed as her raison d'être the very development of American art.

A history of American art and its criticism as seen through the eyes of contemporary viewers and critics.

Presented in conjunction with the October 2002 exhibition, this volume features examples from the Tate Collections of works by Whistler, Sargent and Steer, who have been credited with bringing modern art to London near the end of the 19th century. Essays by art historians David Fraser Jenkins and Avis Berman discuss the influences that shaped the works of each artist, as well as the characteristics of British arts and letters during that period as seen through the experience of artist and writer W. Graham Robertson. Contains several color and b & w illustrations in addition to 38 color reproductions (accompanied by detailed descriptions) in the catalogue.

This is the first full-scale publication examining the work of the noted architectural painter, Adam Van Doren. His watercolor paintings are noted for their process and style and his New York home allows him to walk out his door and into his next painting.