| Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks Contributor(s): Tatham, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815607733 ISBN-13: 9780815607731 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: In this lavishly illustrated volume, David Tatham turns his eye to Winslow Homer's Adirondack oils, drawings, prints, and watercolors - more than a hundred pieces from the artist's many visits to the region between 1870 and 1910. Homer's affinity for this remote region of New York State lasted for forty years. No other place - not even Prout's Neck in Maine - held his attention as an artist for so long a period. Nearly every time he set out for the Adirondacks he went to the same two places - the environs of Keene Valley and a group of rustic buildings in a forest clearing in the Essex County township of Minerva, south of the High Peaks. Tatham casts Homer's early Adirondack works as postbellum pastorals and explores the impact of Darwinian thought on Homer's later works. He examines the concepts of landscape and wilderness, the development of the Adirondack park, and the forest preservation movement, as well as Homer's contemporaneous work in Maine, the Caribbean, and England. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Art | Subjects & Themes - Landscapes & Seascapes - Art | Individual Artists - General |
| Dewey: 760.092 |
| LCCN: 95052921 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 9.5" W x 11" (2.12 lbs) 158 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this title, David Tatham demonstrates that Winslow Homer's 'Adirondack oils and watercolours constitute a highly original examination of the human race's relationship to the natural world at a time when long-established assumptions about humans, nature, and art itself were undergoing profound change. |