Winslow Homer and the critics : forging a national art in the 1870s / Margaret C. Conrads.
Winslow Homer and the critics : forging a national art in the 1870s / Margaret C. Conrads.
Winslow Homer and the critics : forging a national art in the 1870s / Margaret C. Conrads.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, c2001.
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NQ759.13/56
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English
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xi, 252 p. : ill. (some col.) 31 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 1868-69: "Mr. Winslow Homer Is at Home Once More" 9 -- CHAPTER 2 1870-72: Commanding Respect and Challenging Admiration 25 -- CHAPTER 3 1873-74: On Shifting Ground 49 -- CHAPTER 4 1875: "In the Midst of an Era of Revolution" 65 -- CHAPTER 5 1876: The Centen...
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, c2001.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c2001.
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"By viewing Homer's works of the 1870s through the lens of contemporaneous criticism, the author explains how and why the painter embodied the critics' high hopes for an art that expressed national values. She finds reflected in his vivid images an ongoing struggle to meet these expectations, even as he challenged and helped to redefine the artisti...
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Winslow Homer and the critics : forging a national art in the 1870s / Margaret C. Conrads.
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 18-May 6, 2001, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif., June 10-Sept. 9, 2001, and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 6, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-247) and index.
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c2001.
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NQ759.13/56
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0691074305 (pbk.)
9780691070995
0691070997
9780691074306 (pbk.)
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759.13
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991014019559702626
