George Inness Writings and Reflections on Art and Philosophy |
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| Author:
| Bell, Adrienne Baxter |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8076-1567-6 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2007 |
| Publisher: | George Braziller Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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The American landscape painter George Inness (1825-1894) was one of themost thoughtful and inventive artists of his generation. George Inness and the Visionary Landscape presents both a concise overview of Inness's life and work and a focused examination of his philosophical and religious preoccupations. It shows how Inness, inspired by the ideas of the scientist-mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688- 1772), devised a new artistic vocabulary to convey his...
More Description The American landscape painter George Inness (1825-1894) was one of themost thoughtful and inventive artists of his generation.
George Inness and the Visionary Landscape presents both a concise overview of Inness's life and work and a focused examination of his philosophical and religious preoccupations. It shows how Inness, inspired by the ideas of the scientist-mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688- 1772), devised a new artistic vocabulary to convey his understanding of the personal visionary experience. Moreover, it reveals commonalities between Inness's prescient work and efforts by the psychologist- philosopher William James (1842-1910) to validate mystical states of mind. It explains for the first time how Inness treated landscape painting as a form of philosophical inquiry that could communicate his holistic belief in the unity of nature and spirit.