| Description |
xi, 267 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm |
| 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 -- App. The Color of Mood: American Tonalism, 1880-1910 |
| 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 - softness - Like Breath on Glass explores this painterly phenomenon through works by fifteen important artists, including Whistler, George Inness, John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, John Henry Twachtman, and Eduard Steichen."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 22-Oct. 19, 2008 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index |
| Subject |
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 -- Exhibitions.
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Inness, George, 1825-1894 -- Exhibitions.
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Painting, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
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Painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Simpson, Marc.
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Corn, Wanda M.
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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
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| LC no. |
2008002678 |
| ISBN |
9780931102783 (hardcover : Clark : alk. paper) |
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0931102782 (hardcover : Clark : alk. paper) |
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9780931102769 (paperback: Clark : alk. paper) |
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0931102766 (paperback: Clark : alk. paper) |
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9780300134063 (hardcover : Yale : alk. paper) |
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0300134061 (hardcover : Yale : alk. paper) |
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