{"product_id":"winslow-homer-and-the-pictorial-press-9780815629740","title":"Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinslow Homer (1836-1910), arguably the best-known American artist of the nineteenth century, created three distinctly different bodies of work in the course of his long career: paintings, book illustrations, and illustrations for the pictorial press, the magazine-like illustrated journals of his day. A number of books and exhibition catalogues have dealt with his career as a painter, and historian David Tatham treated all of Homer's work as an illustrator of literature in his \u003ci\u003eWinslow Homer and the Illustrated Book.\u003c\/i\u003e Now, ten years later, Tatham has completed a full, scholarly account of Homer's work for pictorial magazines such as \u003ci\u003eHarper's Weekly, Appleton's Monthly, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEvery Saturday. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHomer's work for pictorial magazines is substantial, to say the least. It amounts to some 250 wood-engraved images published between 1857 and 1875. These wood engravings are collected assiduously and are exhibited frequently in museums. They differ from Homer's book illustrations in that they are independent from the texts; Homer chose and treated the great majority of his magazine subjects much as he did his paintings. They are, in essence, original works of graphic art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe illustrations reproduced here cover a remarkable range. They constitute the first substantial body of American art about the life of the city streets, the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, abolition, and the New Woman. They include compelling treatments of the Civil War, rural childhood, and wilderness. They also comprise an essential contribution to the study of one of the masters of American art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Tatham\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of fine arts at Syracuse University. He is the author of several books including \u003ci\u003eWinslow Homer in London: A New York Artist Abroad, Winslow Homer and the Illustrated Book, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWinslow Homer in the Adirondacks.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705100665106,"sku":"9780815629740","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cd20f6fd-396b-4e98-927c-b7874145d8e1.jpg?v=1762340501","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/winslow-homer-and-the-pictorial-press-9780815629740","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}