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[edited by] Marc Simpson ; with essays by Wanda M. Corn … [et al.]Publication Details
BookSterling and Francine Clark Art Institute2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ND210 .L55 2008 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Focusing on this singular aesthetic characteristic - softness - “Like Breath on Glass” explores this painterly phenomenon through works by fifteen important artists, including Whistler, George Inness, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, John Twachtman, and Eduard Steichen.Leading scholars in American art consider a wide variety of topics: the very different motives - technical, social, religious, and scientific - that prompted these artists in their experimentation; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Notes
- Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 22-Oct. 19, 2008
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
ISBN
- 0931102766
- 9780931102769
- 0931102782
- 9780931102783
- 9780300134063
- 0300134061
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