George Inness The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 1-Juni 9, 1985, etc / Catalogue of an exhibtion

Quick, Michael und Jr., Nicolai Cikovsky:

ISBN 10: 0064307107 / ISBN 13: 9780064307109

Published by New York : Harper & Row, 1985

About this Item

213 Pages.; With many Illustrations Original Broschur. Kaum Gebrauchsspuren. Innen sehr sauberes Widmungsexemplar. Englische Sprache. - Original Paperback. Little used. Inside in very good condition. Dedication copy. English Language. MIG-32-02B|S8 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1222.

Seller Inventory # 44105

Bibliographic Details

• Title: George Inness The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 1-Juni 9, 1985, etc / Catalogue of an exhibtion
• Publisher: New York : Harper & Row
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0064307107
• ISBN 13: 9780064307109
• Binding: 31 x 26 cm
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 1222 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modernes Antiquariat

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Synopsis

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

From Booklist

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