{"product_id":"winslow-homer-american-passage-9780374603793","title":"Winslow Homer: American Passage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive life of the painter who forged \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican identity visually, in art and illustration, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewith an impact comparable to \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethat of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003epoetry and prose--yet whose own story has \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eremained largely untold.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1860, at the age of twenty-four, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) sold \u003ci\u003eHarper's Weekly \u003c\/i\u003etwo dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred to metal plates to stamp on paper. One was a scene that Homer saw on a visit to Boston, his hometown. His illustration shows a crowd of abolitionists on the brink of eviction from a church; at their front is Frederick Douglass, declaring \"the freedom of all mankind.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHomer, born into the Panic of 1837 and raised in the years before the Civil War, came of age in a nation in crisis. He created multivalent visual tales, both quintessentially American and quietly replete with narrative for and about people of all races and ages. Whether using pencil, watercolor, or, most famously, oil, Homer addressed the hopes and fears of his fellow Americans and invited his viewers into stories embedded with universal, timeless questions of purpose and meaning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike his contemporaries Twain and Whitman, Homer captured the landscape of a rapidly changing country with an artist's probing insight. His tale is one of America in all its complexity and contradiction, as he evolved and adapted to the restless spirit of invention transforming his world. In \u003ci\u003eWinslow \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomer: American Passage\u003c\/i\u003e, William R. Cross reveals the man behind the art. It is the surprising story of a life led on the front lines of history. In that life, this Everyman made archetypal images of American culture, endowed with a force of moral urgency through which they speak to all people today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes Color Images and Maps\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374603793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560","brand":"William R. Cross","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41614531592373,"sku":"9780374603793","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_be138c7a-77db-4cc5-8f82-b1eea93626e5.jpg?v=1644902028","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/winslow-homer-american-passage-9780374603793","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}