George Inness [The Library Of American Art].

CIKOVSKY, Nicolai, Jr.

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ISBN 10: 0810934620 ISBN 13: 9780810934627

Published by [New York]: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. In Association With The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, [1993]., 1993

Language: English

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4to. pp. 143. 101 illus. (45 colour). biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.

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George Inness [The Library Of American Art].

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[New York]: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. In Association With The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, [1993].

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1993

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English

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0810934620

ISBN 13

9780810934627

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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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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