Review
"Silverman's work is fiercely and resolutely representational, holding to a traditional background and aesthetic that flies in the face of the adherents and champions of modernism. Intensely personal, always masterful, Silvermans work is included in such collections as the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia museum of Art the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery." -- Art Times, March 1999
"The book is a retropsective of Burt's last 25 years of work and clearly shows the importance of this man to art history. The book with its 88 color plates is a feast for the art-loving eye. I found it to be one of the few art books that I can truly say I read from cover to cover. Like the man himself, it's articulate, well thought out and important in the context of how great representational artists fit in this 'modern art' century". -- Art Talk ,April May 1999
..his humanity and power of delineation is a lift to the spirit and an assurance that American art lives. -- Communication Arts. July 2000
Robert McGrath' essay.. is thought provoking. Anyone who enjoys realist painting will find this lovely volume eminently worth the cost. -- Bloomsbury Review , May 2000
From the Inside Flap
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.
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