- Meyer Schapiro: The Presence of the Subject Marshall Berman Marshall Berman, author of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (Penguin), teaches at CUNY and writes on culture and politics. He is a member of the editorial board of Dissent. I FELL IN LOVE WITH MEYER SCHAPIRO the first time I saw him. As I write this, more than 30 years later, I am just about the age now -- ...www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue20/berman20.htm