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Mellon Limited
Shinwon Literary Rights
March 15, 2008
Softcover; $65.00
Size: 10" x 14"
Non-fiction
ISBN 13: 978-89-960065-1-0
278-pages
222 color plates
48 b/w photos



windsor joe innis | coatepec mexico


"Unique, fascinating, thoughtful and thought-provoking, "Innocence Abroad" is a superbly presented art study that is enthusiastically recommended for personal, professional, and academic library Art History reference collections."

-Midwest Book Review


"In seeing the truth, Windsor
has added another perspective on how to see beauty."

-Donald Kuspit








FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS Windsor lived and painted in a peaceful colonial town deep in the plantation country in the state of Veracruz, an old and mystical part of Mexico.

In painting the young girls of Coatepec, the artist discovers the truth, beauty and fragility of the world they inhabit and often command. . .

Foreword by
Miguel Ruiz-Cabanas Izquierdo
Ambassador of Mexico to Japan

and essays by
Dr. Donald Kuspit, Critic, Art Historian, Professor, SUNY
Dr. Jeff Fishel, Professor Emeritus,
American University
Scott JT Frank, Epiphany Pictures

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Windsor- The Tiled Kitchen


"Those who value what artists can and should say about the age in which we live are losing patience. They wait in vain for those who can interpret contemporary life against the rich history that led to it."
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paintings windsor

"Windsor, born in Chicago, is a steadfast, passionate pursuer of light, of its effects on color, of its transforming action upon reality."
- International Art Critic Osiris Chierico, Museo Eduardo Sivori, Buenos Aires, Argentina}

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"It's late in the shoot and she's growing restless, a good sign. She's forgotten I'm there, ignoring me and my camera as I close in on her face. It's an ordinary face to be sure, for she's an ordinary girl..."
- from The Transcendentalist: The Otherworldly Model (Innocence Abroad)


the girls of coatepec

nocence Abroad: The Girls of Coatepec by Windsor Joe Innis published by Mellon Limited | English publication date: March 15, 2008
Author's representatives: http://www.ShinwonAgency.com | http://www.InnisArt.com
Site information: Paintings/Photo-sketches © Windsor Joe Innis | Photos of Windsor: ©Yasuo Morida | © InnisArt 2007-2008