Winslow Homer - Nicolai Cikovsky
KORTE INHOUD
"The book discusses and reproduces more than two hundred paintings, watercolors, and drawings that span Homer's career, all of which are discussed in entries by Cikovsky and Kelly. It begins with the Civil War paintings that first brought Homer's remarkable artistic mentality to public attention, in which he movingly expressed the profound implications the war held for the nation. Homer's interest in national themes is further explored in his works of the later 1860s and 1870s, which embraced a wide spectrum of American life. His shift toward more idealized and heroic imagery and his withdrawal to a solitary life at Prout's Neck, Maine, in the 1880s are discussed as turning points leading to the great achievements of his last two decades. After considering his beautiful late watercolors of the Tropics and the Adirondacks, and his monumental Prout's Neck seascapes, the book concludes with a reassessment of the tragic, almost visionary paintings of his last years." "The book is also the catalogue for a major ex...
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1995Uitgever: National Gallery of Art420 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0894682172ISBN-13: 9780894682179Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Winslow Homer (Boston, 24 februari 1836 ? Prout's Neck, Maine, 29 september 1910) was een Amerikaans lithograaf, tekenaar en kunstschilder. Hij wordt door velen beschouwd als de belangrijkste Amerikaanse schilder uit de 19e eeuw. Homer is een vertegenwoordiger van de realistische genreschilderkunst. Hij was een uitstekend dierschilder en maakte veel aquarellen. Hij was befaamd om zijn zeegezichten.
Paperback, 420 pages, ENG, 305 x 265 x 30 mm, in good order, dozens of illustrations in colours and b/w. ISBN ...
Paperback, 420 pages, ENG, 305 x 265 x 30 mm, in good order, dozens of illustrations in colours and b/w. ISBN ...
1995, softcover, goed exemplaar, vouw in achterkaft [Auteur: Cikovsky, Nicolai jr / Franklin Kelly] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Yale University Press] [Jaar: 1995] [Titel: Winslow Homer]
