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Melissa Miller (born 1951) is an American painter who is best known for what Art in America called "raucous allegorical paintings" of animals that balance storytelling, psychological insight and behavioral observation with technical virtuosity and formal rigor. She rose to prominence during a rebirth in figurative painting and narrative content in the early 1980s championed by curators such as Marcia Tucker and Barbara Rose, who both selected Miller for prominent surveys (respectively, "Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained" at the 1984 Venice Biennial and "Fresh Paint" at PS1, 1985). Rose identified Miller among a group of iconoclastic "rule breakers," describing her work as "a wild kingdom … gone slightly berserk" in the struggle for survival, whose intensity recalled Delacroix. In a later Artforum review, Donald Kuspit called Miller's paintings "apocalyptic allegories" executed with meticulous old-master methods that articulated psychic states, existential problems and ecological concerns. Miller has exhibited at museums throughout the United States, including the Whitney Museum, New Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Hirshhorn Museum. Her work belongs to the public art collections of the Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Albright-Knox Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others, and she has received the Anonymous Was A Woman Award and Texas Artist of the Year Award. Miller lives and works in Austin, Texas. Life and career Miller was born in Houston, Texas and spent much of her life in rural central Texas and the mountains of northern New Mexico. She earned a BFA from University of New Mexico (1974) and spent a summer at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, where she began to shift away from her Abstract Expressionist training toward landscape and figurative painting, seeking to create more accessible work.Miller attracted early notice for exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Laguna Gloria Art Museum and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, shows curated by early supporter Marcia Tucker in Austin and New Orleans (1979, 1980), and finally, the Venice Biennial (1984), which brought national and international attention. During that time, Miller was also selected for the Whitney (1983), SFMOMA (1984) and Corcoran Gallery of Art (1993) biennials, and began exhibiting at the Holly Solomon Gallery (New York, 1984–95) and Texas Gallery (Houston, 1983–95).In the second half of her career, Miller had continued to exhibit widely in museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Grace Museum and at the Betty Moody (Houston) and Talley Dunn (Dallas) galleries since the early 2000s. In addition to painting, Miller taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1998 until 2011, when she retired as Associate Professor Emerita; previously, she taught at University of Texas at San Antonio, Southern Methodist University and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Critical reception Miller arrived at a mature style and achieved recognition fairly early in her career, despite being geographically (Texas) and stylistically outside the mainstream of contemporary art. Critics such as New York Times's Michael Brenson describe her work as "steeped in tradition," recalling classical history paintings, Dutch still lifes, 19th-century naturalism, American luminism and regionalism, and the history of animal representation from Sir Edwin Landseer and Henri Rousseau to the Blue Reiter group; others note wider influences (acknowledged by Miller) that include Japanese prints, Persian miniatures, Chinese scroll painting, and Native American dances.Miller's tableaux depict realistic yet subtly anthropomorphized animals in dramas that range from alarming to fantastical or wry and comment allegorically on wildlife (predator and prey, adaptation, survival, climate and ecological threat) and shared human themes (emotions, fears, interaction, displacement). Reviews emphasize Miller's technique and formal concerns as much as her content, in particular, noting her expressive, varied brushwork, idiosyncratic color, and sense of light and pattern. Arts Magazine suggested that her interest in animal subjects resulted as much from the opportunities to "exploit the sensuality, physicality, and tactility of the painted surface" as emotional, visual and allegorical concerns; ARTnews observed that her paintings display a "remarkable conjunction of baroque composition"—recalling tumultuous hunting scenes by Delacroix, Rubens, and da Vinci—and Abstract Expressionist immediacy with regard to gesture, color and surface. Work Miller’s figurative paintings and drawings of the later 1970s arose out of her affinity for rural Texas and New Mexico environments and behavioral observation, and often portrayed lively, high-colored, seemingly ordinary farm vignettes (barnyard scenes, picnics) featuring both animals and people. By the early 1980s, she shifted completely to scenes featuring animals—including exotic species—in moments of apprehension, fury or joy, finding in them more vital and immediate expressive possibilities. Works such as Untitled (Tigers) (1982) and Leopard Dance (1983)—images of monkeys or a leopard dancing for audiences of tigers—or Flood (1983), which showed a pair of tigers and a crane perched on rocks amid a torrential downpour, depict primal, mysterious dramas that critics of the time described as novel, challenging and visionary. By 1985, the looser, more Rubenesque animals of Miller's early work had given way to tighter, more realistic protagonists. These animals interacted with humanoids and mythological or fictional characters (angels, demons, spirits) in fantastical scenarios inspired by Eastern and Western folk tales (e.g., Aesop's Crow, 1985) that emphasized a psychological focus on inner states and existential dilemmas rather than external observation. Representative, allegorical works of this period include Broken Wing (1986), New Skin (1988), Decision (1991) and Night Sky (1995), which respectively depict mortal crisis, spontaneous metamorphosis, a phantasmagorical procession of creatures, and flight in the midst of environmental catastrophe.Reacting to disappearing natural habitats and the increasing number of imported species that she observed in Texas and the Southwest, Miller shifted from fantastical and mythic scenes to tableaux combining farm and exotic animals in her paintings and drawings of the early 2000s. These paintings conveyed wary, almost-lazy calm and indifference and alluded to tenuous relationships among strangers, immigration, alienation, harmony and integration (e.g., Farm, 2002; Cluster, 2003). This work often employed rigorously structured, frieze-like compositions of flattened landscapes rather than illusionistic space, which reviewers compared to Japanese screens and Persian miniatures, Giorgio Morandi still lifes, and pre-Renaissance gro.... Discover the Melissa F Miller popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Melissa F Miller books.
Best Seller Melissa F Miller Books of October 2021
Second Chance Contract
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Finding Kenna
Susan StokerOctober 19, 2021$4.99She came to his rescue once, now it’s time for him to return the favor. From the moment she jumped on his back during a training exercise, Kenna had Marshall “Aleck” Smart’s attentio...
The Temptation
Nikki SloaneOctober 19, 2021$5.99Vance Hale has everything. A ridiculous amount of money, an Ivy-league education, and a 1,000-watt smile that can charm the designer dress right off a girl. He’s also going to have a futur...
Dear Santa
Debbie MacomberOctober 19, 2021$11.99A special holiday wish list brings about hope, love, and second chances in this nostalgic novel from the queen of Christmas stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber...
Night Shift
Stephen KingOctober 1, 1993$1.99Stephen King’s first collection of short stories showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination and will "chill the cockles of many a heart" ( Chicago Tribune ). Featuring ...
Endless Shadows
Kathleen BrooksOctober 19, 2021$4.99Ryker Faulkner has built his empire by being ruthless. No one knows the full extent Ryker has gone to in order to build himself up from nothing to one of the most powerful men in the country...
The House Swap
Jo LovettApril 19, 2021$3.99Island house off coast of Maine, with private beach, sea views and the occasional farmyard animal, seeks super swanky Central London penthouse overlooking Holland Park, complete with concier...
The Whites
Richard Price & Harry BrandtFebruary 17, 2015$1.99By the co-writer of the HBO miniseries The Night Of Richard Price's New York Times bestseller, The Whites , is an electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unso...
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura DaveMay 4, 2021$13.99#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SELECTION OF THE REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED, BEST BOOK OF SUMMER SELECTED BY * VOGUE * USA TODAY * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * CNN * TOWN & ...
Shades of Truth
Denise Grover SwankSeptember 28, 2021$4.99The penultimate book in the Carly Moore Series For six months, Carly Moore has been trying to bring down the town patriarch, Bart Drummond. Everyone knows he’s behind a “favor” system ...
Oh William!
Elizabeth StroutOctober 19, 2021$14.99Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind....
The Wish
Nicholas SparksSeptember 28, 2021$14.99With exclusive travel photos and a special letter from the Author, only available for e-readers. From the author of The Longest Ride and The Return comes a novel about the enduring legacy of...
What If I Never?
Lisa Renee JonesOctober 19, 2021$5.99In the vein of her Inside Out series, New York Times Bestselling Author Lisa Renee Jones returns with the dark, seductive world of the Necklace Trilogy... Allison Wright is delivered a packa...
The Storyteller
Dave GrohlOctober 5, 2021$14.99So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to ...
The Couple Next Door
Shari LapenaAugust 23, 2016$2.99AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shari Lapena’s new thriller, AN UNWANTED GUEST, is available now! “ The twists come as fast [as] you can turn the pages. ” — People ...
The Night She Disappeared
Lisa JewellSeptember 7, 2021$6.99INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK “Utterly gripping with richly drawn, hugely compelling characters, this is a first-class thriller with heart.” —Lucy Fo...
Vanderbilt
Anderson Cooper & Katherine HoweSeptember 21, 2021$14.99New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary Ame...
The Judge's List
John GrishamOctober 19, 2021$14.99Nonstop suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author: Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge. &#...
Three Sisters
Susan MalleryMay 31, 2016$1.99In this heartwarming and celebrated Blackberry Island novel, New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery introduces us to three women whose friendship is about to change their lives fore...
A Line to Kill
Anthony HorowitzOctober 19, 2021$14.99The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthor...
Silverview
John le CarréOctober 12, 2021$14.99An instant New York Times bestseller! In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years—the secret world itself. N...
State of Terror
Louise Penny & Hillary ClintonOctober 12, 2021$14.99Named one of the most anticipated novels of the season by People , Associated Press, Time , Los Angeles Times , Parade , St. Louis Post-Dispatch , The Guardian , Publishers Weekly , and more...
Verity
Colleen HooverOctober 5, 2021$5.99A "sublimely creepy" psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover (Tarryn Fisher, New York Times bestselling author). Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer...
Traveling Light
Katrina KittleOctober 13, 2009$1.99"Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face" was the best advice Summer Zwolenick ever received from her father, though she didn't recognize it at the time. Three years after the acc...
The Lincoln Highway
Amor TowlesOctober 5, 2021$14.99#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” — The New York Times Book Review ...
Enemy at the Gates
Vince Flynn & Kyle MillsSeptember 14, 2021$14.99Mitch Rapp, the CIA’s top operative, searches for a high-level mole with the power to rewrite the world order in this riveting thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flyn...
2 Sisters Detective Agency
James Patterson & Candice FoxOctober 5, 2021$11.99From the world's #1 bestselling author comes a thrilling new standalone novel where a detective duo of sisters finds themselves in the crosshairs of a dangerous and lawless group. Attorney R...
Going There
Katie CouricOctober 26, 2021$15.99Heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest, Going There is the deeply personal life story of a girl next door turned household name. For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been...
Black Potatoes
Susan Campbell BartolettiJuly 29, 2014$1.99Sibert Award Winner: This true story of five years of starvation in Ireland is “a fascinating account of a terrible time” ( Kirkus Reviews ). In 1845, a disaster struck Irel...
Dune
Frank HerbertSeptember 1, 1975$9.99NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bau...
Red Sin
Aleatha RomigOctober 19, 2021$4.99Red is the color of blood, sacrifice, danger, and courage. It’s also associated with heat, passion, and sexuality. When two people meet unexpectedly with an inexplicable attraction that de...
Last Girl Ghosted
Lisa UngerOctober 5, 2021$12.99"A five-alarm fire of a situation…the surprises keep coming." —The New York Times Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this riveting thriller about an online dating match ...
Not All Diamonds and Rosé
Dave QuinnOctober 19, 2021$14.99“I like to think of NOT ALL DIAMONDS AND ROSÉ as the ultimate reunion. I know readers will be surprised, entertained, and even shocked at what’s in store." - Andy Cohen Dave Quinn's Not...
The Other Husband
Kathryn CroftOctober 14, 2021$0.99One dinner party will destroy everything. The night that throws a wrecking ball into Abby’s life starts out perfectly at first. There’s still a hint of summer sun in the purple-streaked ...
A Shadow in the Ember
Jennifer L. ArmentroutOctober 19, 2021$6.99#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout returns with book one of the all-new, compelling Flesh and Fire series—set in the beloved Blood and Ash world. Born shrouded in ...
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony DoerrSeptember 28, 2021$14.99Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award, longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal, and the instant New York Times bestseller! From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light...
Over My Dead Body
Jeffrey ArcherOctober 19, 2021$14.99An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer. THE CLOCK IS TICKING IN THIS ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF A THRILLER… In London, th...
Redeeming Love
Francine RiversNovember 1, 1991$11.99SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • ECPA BESTSELLER • A story of love that won't let go—no matter what! California’s gold country, 1850. A time ...
Window Shopping
Tessa BaileyOctober 19, 2021$4.99A sizzling, standalone, feel-good holiday romance from Tessa Bailey, New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer ... Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, sho...
We Were Never Here
Andrea BartzAugust 3, 2021$6.99NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “This book is every suspense lover’s dream and it kept me up way too late turning pages. . . . A novel with crazy twists a...
Hollywood Station
Joseph WambaughNovember 26, 2006$1.99For a cop, a night on the job means killing time and trying not to get killed. If you're a cop in Hollywood Division, it also means dealing with the most overwrought, desperate, and deluded ...
Only One Regret (Only One Series)
Natasha MadisonOctober 19, 2021$4.99From The Something So Series and the This Is series, USA Bestseller Natasha Madison has a brand new Hockey series Only One. Cooper My name came with big skates to fill. At the top of my game...
Promise Me Forever (A Single Dad Romance)
Layla HagenOctober 19, 2021$3.99As a divorced single father, I live by three rules: 1. Make sure every day my daughter, Paisley, knows she's number one in my life. No. Matter. What. 2. Keep contact with my cheating e...
Sex and Vanity
Kevin KwanJune 30, 2020$11.99NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Good Morning America Book Club Pick The author of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians takes you from Capri to NYC, where Lucie ...
The Love Hypothesis
Ali HazelwoodSeptember 14, 2021$9.99The Instant New York Times Bestseller! As seen on THE VIEW! A BuzzFeed Best Summer Read of 2021 When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it thr...
It Ends with Us
Colleen HooverAugust 2, 2016$11.99In this “brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn’t let go, long after you’ve finished it” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) from the #1 New ...
Best in Snow
David RosenfeltOctober 19, 2021$13.99In this Christmas mystery, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, are on the beat after a body turns up in the snow and a journalist is the prime suspect. Christmas has come e...
Apples Never Fall
Liane MoriartySeptember 14, 2021$14.99#1 New York Times Bestseller From Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers , comes Apples Never Fall , a novel that looks at mar...
A Thief of Time
Tony HillermanOctober 6, 2009$1.99“All of Tony Hillerman’s Navajo tribal police novels have been brilliant, but A Thief of Time is flat-out marvelous.”—USA Today From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman,...
Let Yourself Run Free Again (A Breath Without Life Novel - Book Two)
Janith HooperNovember 20, 2019$0.99A discouraged rancher. A driven barrel racer. One sees a dead-end future. The other plans to dazzle the world. Fate dares to slam them together. Will they survive the collision? Colt Cooper ...
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- The Judge's List: A Novel (Unabridged)John Grisham$14.99
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