Cross William R. Winslow Homer: American Passage 9780374603793

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Автор: Cross William R.
Название: Winslow Homer: American Passage
ISBN: 9780374603793
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Классификация:

История художественных и оформительских стилей: с 1900 г.

Живопись

Монографии о художниках, по искусству

Биографии деятелей искусств и развлечений

ISBN-10: 0374603790
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 560
Вес: 1.33 кг.
Дата издания: 12.04.2022
Язык: English
Размер: 24.18 x 16.59 x 3.63 cm
Поставляется из: США
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The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, with an impact comparable to that of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in poetry and prose--yet whose own story has remained largely untold.

In 1860, at the age of twenty-four, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) sold Harpers Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred to metal plates to stamp on paper. One was a scene that Homer saw on a visit to Boston, his hometown. His illustration shows a crowd of abolitionists on the brink of eviction from a church; at their front is Frederick Douglass, declaring the freedom of all mankind.

Homer, born into the Panic of 1837 and raised in the years before the Civil War, came of age in a nation in crisis. He created multivalent visual tales, both quintessentially American and quietly replete with narrative for and about people of all races and ages. Whether using pencil, watercolor, or, most famously, oil, Homer addressed the hopes and fears of his fellow Americans and invited his viewers into stories embedded with universal, timeless questions of purpose and meaning.

Like his contemporaries Twain and Whitman, Homer captured the landscape of a rapidly changing country with an artists probing insight. His tale is one of America in all its complexity and contradiction, as he evolved and adapted to the restless spirit of invention transforming his world. In Winslow Homer: American Passage, William R. Cross reveals the man behind the art. It is the surprising story of a life led on the front lines of history. In that life, this Everyman made archetypal images of American culture, endowed with a force of moral urgency through which they speak to all people today.

Includes Color Images and Maps

Winslow Homer: American Passage, Cross William R.