Luminosity: The Paintings of Stephen Hannock [Hardcover]

Stephen Hannock (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2000

Stephen Hannock is considered one of the top American landscape painters working today. Represented in major international collections and reflecting a Romantic tradition that dates back to the Hudson River School, his majestic works are renowned for their extraordinarily luminous quality—an iridescence that is achieved through his signature technique of sandpaper-polished oil on canvas. The hushed reverie of earth and sky that is captured in these hauntingly evocative paintings echoes the idyllic grandeur of such forebears as J.M.W. Turner, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Louis Remy Mignot, among other nineteenth-century masters. The Academy Award he shared for his landscapes on the film What Dreams May Come has enabled Hannock—a craftsman in an art all too rare—to reach an even wider audience. Reawakening one of the most significant styles of American painting, Stephen Hannock illuminates in this beautiful compendium the glorious wonder of the landscape around us.

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About the Author

Stephen Hannock is internationally known as one of the foremost contemporary American luminists. His paintings have been reproduced in numerous publications and exhibited in museums worldwide. He lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 120 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (September 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811828328
• ISBN-13: 978-0811828321
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,374,467 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an incredibly beautiful book, September 29, 2000

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Eli Wilner (new york, n.y.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Luminosity: The Paintings of Stephen Hannock (Hardcover)

The painings shown in this book are clearly the work of a master at the height of his career. This book is a testament to this great talent. I am a collector of Hannock's paintings. Several are illustrated and I can attest to the acccuracy of the colors.Congratulations to Stephen and Chronicle Books for an extraordinary accomplishment.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lullabye... sweet dreams, February 2, 2010

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Ahs Borngren (New York State) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Luminosity: The Paintings of Stephen Hannock (Hardcover)

After a hard day's work, late at night, winding down and looking for something sweet to fall asleep with, I open this beautiful book and look at the paintings. I look at them, and go into them... lying down in the meadows and on the hillsides, on the banks of the rivers... under the canopy of a leafy tree... and feel the warm grasses on my arms and legs, the earth under my back... smell the clear rich, fragrant air... listen to the singing water, birds, crickets, bees buzzing nearby... and watch the clouds and the sky change colors with the moving sun. This is paradise.. heaven. After several minutes, fifteen, a half hour, of this, I am ready to tuck myself into my own bed, in my own house, on a cold winter's night, and drift off into a dreamy landscape where I spend the night in the greatest amount of warmth and pleasantness I can imagine.