Winslow Homer and his critics in the 1870s.
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Title
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Winslow Homer and his critics in the 1870s.
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Identifier
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AAI9946155
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identifier
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9946155
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Creator
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Conrads, Margaret C.
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Contributor
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Adviser: William H. Gerdts
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Date
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1999
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Art History | American Studies
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Abstract
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Since the mid-1890s, fifteen years before his death in 1910, Winslow Homer had acquired the rank of American art hero. The works that secured Homer's high place in American art were his seascapes painted at Prout's Neck, Maine. With their success, Homer's earlier work and the struggles of his early career were mostly forgotten, and the assumption grew that Homer and his work had always been universally revered. The newspapers and magazines of the 1870s tell a different story. The saga told there is one of a leading painter caught in the crossfire of the aesthetic battles that defined American art during this time.;Winslow Homer was the artist who commanded the most sustained and penetrating commentary in New York City newspapers and magazines between January 1868 and March 1881, the years he spent in New York City between his two only trips to Europe. While other artists---for example, Sanford Gifford in 1870 and J. Frank Currier in 1879---had moments when their work monopolized the discussions on art, Winslow Homer and his art were a continual and pressing topic in the art writing of the 1870s. This dissertation investigates how Homer was discussed and why he was so often the focus of the commentary on art. By thoroughly surveying the critics' reactions to Homer from 1868 to 1881, we can better comprehend the central position Homer held in creating the critical framework of the period and offer a better understanding of the artist at a critical point in his career at a defining moment in the development of American art.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
