New book, still in its publisher's shrink-wrap. Maroon boards with gilt lettering on the spine, full cover dust jacket with reproduction (fractionally faded on spine). Sumptuously illustrated with over 101 illustrations, including 45 plates in full colour. A rich panorama of the life and work of George Inness, a pivotal force in 19th century American landscape painting, initially for his blending of Hudson River school and European styles, and later for his poetic impressionism. Cikovsky argues that no American artist of the period painted with such feeling for the expressive powers of colour and pigment.

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Title: George Inness (Library of American Art)
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0810934620
ISBN 13: 9780810934627
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New
Weight: 1.32 kilograms

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Shows a variety of landscapes and pastoral scenes by the nineteenth-century American artist, and includes critical essays on his work

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There's no better way to say it than Cikovsky's first sentence: "George Inness is one of the most neglected major American artists of the nineteenth century." As he surveys Inness' life and dramatically beautiful paintings, Cikovsky identifies various reasons for Inness' decline in critical fortune, from being considered the best landscape artist in America to being almost forgotten. Inness was largely self-taught and had little patience for the detail and labor of drawing and engraving. He loved, instead, the richness of paint and color, which he called the soul of painting, and believed that one painted, "not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion." Epileptic and prone to depression, Inness was inherently attuned to the beauty of shadows and stormy skies, as well as the mysterious, moody sweep of lush, stream-traced landscapes and autumn's golden light and sense of suspension and transition. Inness' atmospheric paintings are difficult to reproduce, but Abrams has done its usual fine job, enabling us to lose ourselves in Inness' extraordinarily lyrical world. Donna Seaman

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