Author: Anthony Snodgrass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521629812
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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This is a book about Homer, myth and art. The Iliad and Odyssey so dominate our view of ancient Greece that our natural reaction on viewing certain works of early Greek art is to identify them as 'scenes from Homer'. However, Anthony Snodgrass argues that, so far from 'illustrating' the Homeric poems, these works very rarely show signs of acquaintance with the Iliad or Odyssey, seldom even choosing their subject-matter from them. When the subjects do overlap, the artists occasionally give positive signs of preferring a non-Homeric version of the episode. He then attempts to explain why this should be so: despite Homer's unique standing in antiquity, the artists inhabited an independent world, where their own inspirations and concerns dominated their production. It is only the traditional dominance of the literary study of antiquity which has hidden this from us.
Author: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Publisher: Clark Art Institute
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is one of the core figures of 19th-century American art. While most well-known for his oil paintings of Civil War scenes and the windswept Atlantic coastline, Homer's oeuvre encompasses a variety of themes, ranging from childhood games through the life-and-death struggles of man and nature. The Clark Art Institute holds one of the greatest collections of Homer's work across all media, including wood engravings, etchings, watercolors, drawings, and paintings from nearly all phases of his career. The collection was assembled predominately by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), who purchased his first Winslow Homer painting in 1915, followed by Two Guides in 1916 and maintained a passion for the artist throughout the rest of his collecting career, acquiring the small oil Playing a Fish in 1955. This book examines Robert Sterling Clark as a collector of Homer and the Clark's extensive holdings of the artist. Over thirty entries discuss the role of individual works in Homer's oeuvre and their larger significance to the art world. An illustrated checklist provides information on titles, dates, and media for the entire collection. Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Exhibition Schedule: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (06/09/13-09/08/13)
Author: Emmanuel Schwartz
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300109184
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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This lavishly illustrated book explores the impact of the poet Homer on four centuries of French artists through the lens of the Ecole's superb collections of paintings, prints and sculptures.
Author: David Tatham
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815637004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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When Winslow Homer sailed to England in March of 1881, he was already well established as a leading member of his generation of American artists. Critics often referred to him as the “most American of American artists,” combining praise with the implication that his work was provincial compared to that of his more European-trained American contemporaries. However, upon his return, after a year and a half spent in the seaside village of Cullercoats, Homer’s work garnered rave reviews and gained a new appreciation among art dealers. In this book, Tatham’s detailed account of Homer’s time in Cullercoats offers a perceptive reappraisal of both the village’s influence on his work and the paintings themselves. In his Cullercoats paintings, Homer took as his main subject the lives and labors of the village’s women and their strong sense of community. In many ways, these paintings stand among Homer’s most original and perceptive depictions of women, but they also display his masterly uses of watercolor. The Cullercoats paintings show Homer in a new light, and Tatham’s revelatory account provides the long-overdue attention they deserve.
Author: George Anastaplo
Publisher: Ohio University Center for International Studies
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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In an attempt to subject representative texts of a dozen ancient authors to a more or less Socratic inquiry, the noted scholar George Anastaplo suggests in The Thinker as Artist how one might usefully read as well as enjoy such texts, which illustrate the thinking done by the greatest artists and how they "talk" among themselves across the centuries. In doing so, he does not presume to repeat the many fine things said about these and like authors, but rather he discusses what he himself has noticed about them, text by text. Drawing upon a series of classical authors ranging from Homer and Sappho to Plato and Aristotle, Anastaplo examines issues relating to chance, art, nature, and divinity present in the artful works of philosophers and other thinkers. As he has done in his earlier work, Anastaplo mines the great texts to help us discover who we are and what we should be. Some of the works used are familiar, while others were once better known than they are now. The approach to all of them is fresh and provocative, demonstrating the value of such texts in showing the reader what to look for and how to talk about matters that have always engaged thoughtful human beings. These imaginative yet disciplined discussions of important texts of ancient Greek thought and of Raphael's The School of Athens should appeal to both the specialist and the general reader.
Author: Helen A. Cooper
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300039979
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Traces the development of Homer as a watercolorist, shows a selection of his landscapes, seascapes, and portraits, and discusses his distinctive style and techniques.
Author: Margaret C. Adler
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300246100
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Exhibition catalogue on the work of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington with a technical study of the objects"--
Author: Albert Ten Eyck Gardner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494064846
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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This is a new release of the original 1961 edition.
Author: Ann Keay Beneduce
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: 9780847816224
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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American painter Winslow Homer talks about his life and work as if entertaining the reader for the weekend. Includes reproductions of the artist's works and a list of museums where they are on display.
Author: Margaret C. Conrads
Publisher: Princeton Univ Department of Art &
ISBN: 9780691070995
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Homer's luminous watercolors and outdoor portraits are some of the most recognizable works in art history. This collection paints Homer as an integral part of the New York art scene who both embraced, and challenged, the American aesthetic of art. Color illustrations.
