{"product_id":"winslow-homer-american-passage","title":"Winslow Homer: American Passage","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually  in art and illustration  with an impact comparable to that of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in poetry and proseyet whose own story has remained largely untold.  In 1860  at the age of twenty-four  Winslow Homer (18361910) sold Harpers Weekly two 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.  Homer  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.  Like his contemporaries Twain and Whitman  Homer captured the landscape of a rapidly changing country with an artists 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 Winslow Homer: American Passage  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.  Includes Color Images and Maps\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986231390261,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374603790","price":34.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374603793.jpg?v=1770893444","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/winslow-homer-american-passage","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}