- Hardcover: 143 pages
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (Oct 15 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0810934620
- ISBN-13: 978-0810934627
- Product Dimensions: 31.2 x 23.5 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,219,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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A typical Abrams production, Dec 17 2004
By Joseph Reader - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: George Inness (Hardcover)
I bought this book, sight unseen, largely because of its high price--i.e., I assumed I would be getting high quality for the high price. I was disappointed. (I have seen Inness's works beautifully reproduced in another book, so I know it is possible to do.) In this book, too many of the reproductions are in black & white, and those in color are of merely average quality--all of which is inappropriate for a book of this price. I'm not saying this is a horrible book; if you need only a general sense about Inness's work, this might be the book for you (if you can get it relatively cheap). But if you want to really see the beauty of Inness's paintings, you won't get it here. (Unfortunately, I could make the foregoing comments about many of the art books I have seen published by Abrams.)
6 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Landscape Fiction, July 9 2001
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: George Inness (Paperback)
From mentor Rene Francois Gignoux, GEORGE INNESS knew to paint "Sunshine and clouds" with a classic Dutch 17th-century straight horizon. As one of the greatest 19th-century landscape colorists, he preferred civilized nature to wilderness: "The Lackawanna valley" met nature and train, with the informally simple composition and lighter coloring influences of Barbizon school artists Corot, Daubigny, Diaz, Dupre, Jacque, Rousseau and Troyon. He colored emotions and ideas with the depth and richness earlier seen in Titian and with the arbitrariness later seen in Mark Rothko: popular and widely known "Autumn oaks"; "Lake Nemi," with 2 white birds above accenting the crater depth below; "Off the coast of Cornwall," as one of his rare coast and sea scapes. His style included organizing horizontal and vertical elements: "The brush burners" had the perfect balance later seen in Piet Mondrian; "The monk" showed Japanese-style flatness and occult balance; and architecturally detailed "St Peter's" contrasted darkly solid foreground with lighter distance. He started out faithfully finishing in the studio what he sketched in the field: "Landscape with fishermen" was an early exception, with a made-up water body near the very real Sharp Mountains rocks and trees. He ended making up his own landscapes: "October" was one of the clearest examples of this Synthetic style. Thanks to Harvard's Fogg art museum having "October noon" on a back stariway, Nicolai Cikovsky Jr went on to become recognized for his authoritative knowledge of the painter's work and to organize this book with fellow art curator Michael Quick. Readers might want to go on to James EB Breslin's MARK ROTHKO, Rudolf Herman Fuchs' DUTCH PAINTING, Hans Ludwig C. Jaffe's PIET MONDRIAN, and Filippo Pedrocco's TITIAN.
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