Avis Berman is a writer and art historian. She directs the oral history project of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, focusing on his life and work.
The first exhibition and catalogue focused on Lichtenstein's seascapes, it will feature a recreation of his since destroyed Super Sunset billboard commission. This monumental Pop image has not been seen since its one-time presentation outside Philadelphia in 1967. x
Dieses Buch umfasst nebst grundlegenden Texten amerikanischer und europäischer Autoren 70 durchgehend ganz-, bzw. doppelseitige Abbildungen der ausgestellten Werke. Ergänzt werden diese durch wichtige vergleichende Abbildungen sowie umfangreiches Bild- und Textmaterial zur Person und zum Werk. Das Buch richtet sich dabei an ein breites Publikum. Es entsteht so ein wichtiger Beitrag zum Stand der Forschung über das Werk Roy Lichtensteins, einer Schlüsselfigur der amerikanischen Pop-Art.
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.