Like breath on glass : Whistler, Inness, and the art of painting softly / Marc Simpson
Author(s): Corn, Wanda M. | Simpson, Marc
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Like breath on glass : Whistler, Inness, and the art of painting softly
- Author(s)
- Simpson, Marc
Corn, Wanda M. - Publisher
- Williamstown, MA : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2008
- Collation
- xi, 267 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)
28 cm - Summary
- Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple canvases that convey images of shimmering transience, visions suggested rather than delineated. Focusing on this singular aesthetic characteristic, this catalogue explores this painterly phenomenon.
- ISBN
- 9780300134063
- Dewey Class
- 759.13074
- Contents
- Painting softly : an introduction / Marc Simpson -- Whistler, modernism, and the creative afflatus / Marc Simpson -- George Inness, softness, and the vapor barrier / Leo G. Mazow -- True illusions in soft paintings / Cody Hartley -- Materials for immateriality / Joyce Hill Stoner -- Plates -- The ''inaction painters" and their moment / Michael J. Lewis -- Reflections on "The color of mood" / Wanda M. Corn -- Appendix. The color of mood : American tonalism, 1880-1910.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Painting, American -- 19th century
- BRN
- 4276
Notes
- Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 22-Oct. 19, 2008.
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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