Sight & Insight; the Art of Burton Silverman - Hardcover

Burton Silverman; Robert L. McGrath; Phillip Saietta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0942604687 ISBN 13: 9780942604689

Publisher: Silverman Studios Inc., 1999

Synopsis

Book by Burton Silverman, Robert L. McGrath, Phillip Saietta

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From the Inside Flap:

The proximate end of the 20th century affords a unique occasion to consider the art of Burton Silverman. His art may be seen as a kind of radical realism by virtue of its continuing devotion to a humanist vision that has survived the modernist dogmas of the fifties, as well as the austere, impersonal canons of judgment imbedded in the “new realism” of the eighties. At once “old” and paradoxically “new,” his art relates to traditions of European and American realism while updating that legacy with acute perceptions of contemporary experience.

This artistic legacy, which includes such major precursors as Degas, Eakins and America’s greatest urban painter, Edward Hopper, has been consciously reconceptualized through paintings that synthesize representational imagery with a late 20th century sensibility regarding the frailty of human existence in a techno-urbanized world. He brings to his deliberately unexceptional subject matter time honored techniques of craftsmanship and patient observation. For Silverman, form remains inextricably linked to meaning. Asserting itself throughout his painting is the fluid brushwork and natural coloration that informs the eye while eliciting, alchemically, a compassionate understanding of the human condition. In the final analysis, it is Silverman’s unflinching vision, together with his creative rethinking of tradition, that constitutes his most defiant and enduring artistic contribution. --Prof. Robert L. McGrath, Dartmouth College

This book is a collection of the past 25 years of work by this universally respected painter, illustrator and teacher, who has been increasingly regarded as one of America’s important realist artists. With essays by Prof. Robert McGrath, Phillip Saietta and a memoir by the artist, this profusely illustrated monograph chronicles a career rich in depictions of life and equally rich in a panoply of ideas about art. Silverman’s memoir, “Odyssey,” offers observations about his work, his goals and his controversial views of the art world today. A full-color catalog of the exhibitions held at the Butler Institute of American Art and the Brigham Young Museum complements the text and provides the reader with a moveable feast of this artist’s work to which they can return again and again.

About the Author:

Burton Silverman's first one man exhibition took place in 1956 at the Davis Galleries in New York City. Since that time Mr. Silverman has had 27 solo shows in New York , Boston, Philadelphia and Washington , DC. He has appeared in numerous national and international exhibitions including the Mexico City Museum of Art, the Royal Academy of Art in London, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Academy of Design and regional exhibits throughout the US. He has won 33 major prizes from annual exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society and the Butler Institute of American Art. The most recent of these was ,the Berkelson Prize in 1997 and Jos.Isidor Medal in 1993 from the National Academy of Design.the Silver Medal from the AWS in 1995. His paintings are represented in a dozen public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The New Britain Museum, the Mint Museum, the National Museum of Ameri! can Art and the National Portrait Gallery. His work is included in numerous private collections both in the US and Europe.

He has also been commissioned to paint portraits for the covers of Time Magazine and has drawn portraits over 125 persons featured in the Profiles segment of the New Yorker.

Mr. Silverman has also authored magazine articles for various publications including Art News, Book World, (the Liiterary Supplement of the former Herald Tribune) the Artists Magazine and the American Arts Quarterly. His two books on painting have reached audiences in Europe, Asia and South America.

Her has had a long and distinguished career in illustration producing work for virtually all the major magazines in America as well as for a host of institutional clients, that included IBM . GE, ABC , CBS, to name but a few. He was elected to the prestigious Society of Illustrator’s/Museum of American Illustration Hall of Fame in 1990 The artist has authored two other books on painting as well as two videos dealing with watercolor and oil painting He is represented by the Gallery Henoch in New York, The Susan Conway Gallery in Wash., DC and the Merrill [ Johnson Gallery in Denver

About this edition

• Publisher: Silverman Studios Inc.
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0942604687
• ISBN 13: 9780942604689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 157