{"id":7064,"date":"2011-07-16T15:08:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T22:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:57:33","slug":"featured-milton-avery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-milton-avery\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: MILTON AVERY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first3words\">Milton Avery was seen as an American Matisse,<\/span> in part because of his colorful and innovative landscape paintings. Early in his career his work was considered too abstract; when Abstract Expressionism became dominant his work was overlooked as too representational. Although clearly representational it focuses on color relation, and not concerned with creating the illusion of depth. His poetic, bold and creative use of drawing and color set him apart from more conventional painting of his era. A modern master.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> Hard bound with dust jacket. 263 pages profusely illustrated with 158 plates. Intro by Hilton Kramer. Minor wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good. A rare and sought after monograph on the artist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 20358<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Milton Avery<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Hobbs, Robert<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Publisher<\/strong>: <span id=\"biblio-publisher\">Hudson Hills Press<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date<\/strong>: <span id=\"biblio-pubdate\">1990<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Binding<\/strong>: <span id=\"biblio-binding\">Hard Bound<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition<\/strong>: <span id=\"biblio-bookcondition\">Very Good<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Dust Jacket Condition<\/strong>: <span id=\"biblio-dustjacketcondition\">Very Good<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Edition<\/strong>: <span id=\"biblio-edition\">First Edition<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milton Avery was seen as an American Matisse, in part because of his colorful and innovative landscape paintings. Early in his career his work was considered too abstract; when Abstract Expressionism became dominant his work was overlooked as too representational. Although clearly representational it focuses on color relation, and not concerned with creating the illusion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7064"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15039,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions\/15039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}