Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly by Marc Simpson
With essays by Wanda M. Corn, Cody Harley, Michael J. Lewis, Leo G. Mazow and Joyce Hill Stoner
4to. pp. xi, 267. profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. bibliography. index. paperback (near fine - small nick with tear to bottom edge of back cover with two small bumps, light wear to spine ends). Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clarke Institute, [2008].
Published in conjunction with an exhibition.
ISBN-10: 0931102766 / ISBN-13: 9780931102769
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Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple canvases that convey images of shimmering transcience, visions suggested rather than delineated. Focusing on this singular aesthetic characteristic - softness - this book explores this painterly phenomenon.