Publisher's Synopsis
This exhibition catalogue organizes Homer's sea-centered works by four periods that correspond to geographic locations: Gloucester, Massachusetts and other early East Coast seascapes; Cullercoats, England; Prout's Neck in Maine; and notations from his trips to tropical regions such as the Bahamas and fishing retreats such as the Adirondacks in New York. Distinguished European and American scholars, in a series of incisive essays, argue that Homer's seascapes need to be reevaluated. While acknowledging that most understand his paintings as premier examples of American realism, the contributors show that they are also distinctly modern in a way that set Homer radically apart from his contemporaries. Nowhere is this more evident than in his seascapes, where abstractions and expression battle his pictorial realism. The moving emotional undertones of his seascapes emerge in the compelling full-color reproductions featured in the catalog, as his paintings simultaneously capture the unique landscape of their geographic settings, the universality of man's relationship to the sea, and issues of pictorial representation in general.
The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Paperback, excellent condition. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea organised by Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Musee d'Art Americain Giverny/Terra Foundation for American Art Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 22 February- 21 May 2006, Musee d'Art Americain Giverny/Terra Foundation for American Art 18 June-24 September 2006. Pre-owned. ISBN: 0932171508