George Inness and the Visionary Landscape - Softcover

Bell, Adrienne Baxter; Inness, George; National Academy Of Design (U. S.); San Diego Museum Of Art

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1887149139 ISBN 13: 9781887149136

Publisher: San Diego Museum of Art, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Adrienne Baxter Bell, Ph.D., is the author of George Inness: Painting Philosophy and the editor of George Inness: Writings and Reflections on Art and Philosophy (Braziller, 2006). She served as Guest Curator for the exhibition George Inness and the Visionary Landscape (2003-04) and is an Associate Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: San Diego Museum of Art
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1887149139
• ISBN 13: 9781887149136
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174