Seurat and the Science of Painting

In tracing Georges Seurat's theory of art and its application in his major paintings, Homer has woven every bit of evidence relating to the scientific influences on the work of Seurat into a carefully organized and clearly presented exposition. The author's approach has been to study those scientific source which influence this artist.. Chevreul, Helmholtz, Rood, and Henry ... extracting appropriate quotations relating to color, or to expression and harmony in Seurat's art. Each of Seurat's great paintings is in turn analyzed to determine what use he made of such scientific theory and how if influenced his technique and composition.

Arts & Photography

HOMER, William Innes

History & Criticism

M.I.T. Press

. with faded dustjacket, 1977 1st clean copy

Alfred Stieglitz and the American avant-garde

Photography & Video

Secker and Warburg

The author celebrates the centenary of the revolutionary exhibition that marked the transformation of photography from quirky new technology into "respectable" art.

Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, 1902

Studio

The full range of Thomas Eakins's art -- lively sporting scenes, psychologically incisive portraits, dramatic historical tableaux, as well as numerous sculptures and innovative photographs -- is explored in revealing detail in this outstanding critical biography. The first edition of Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art, published in 1992, was selected by Choice as One of the best art books of the year. This second edition of what has become the standard book on the artist adds an appendix discussing recent discoveries about Eakins's use of photography and a bibliographical addendum.
Professor Homer explains Eakins's working methods through telling comparisons between his paintings and the photographs and drawings that were part of his creative process. Drawing on previously undiscovered primary sources, Homer paints a nuanced portrait of the career of this controversial artist, who was too frequently seen as a victim of the Establishment. The result is this landmark in Eakins studies, which helps to demythologize Eakins without diminishing his brilliance or importance.

Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art

Individual Artists

Abbeville Press

Book by Homer, William Innes, Organ, Violet

Robert Henri and his circle,

Cornell University Press

Traces the life and career of the enigmatic American artist, discusses his unusual painting technique, and looks at his literary and artistic influences

Albert Pinkham Ryder: Painter of Dreams

Goodrich, Lloyd

Biographies & Memoirs

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

In this first in-depth study, Homer draws upon interviews and much other unpublished material to examine the careers of Eduard Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Clarence White, and others, and tells how their union under the compelling leadership of Stieglitz changed the course of American photography. The author treats in detail the origins and aesthetic principles of the Photo-Secession, its connections with European modernist artists and photographers, and contemporary critical reaction to their work and their influence. Cloth-bound hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. 180 pages; 103 b&amp;w photos; 9 x 11 inches. Bibliography, index, notes, two appendices.

Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession

Little,Brown & Co

The worlds of art, culture, history, and criticism have been invaded, in recent times, by confusing conceptual language and terminology. Too many texts are difficult to read and comprehend. Indeed they often can be understood only by the knowledgeable minority that knows the code. Yet it is essential for creative thinkers, especially students, to find the key to this unfamiliar world. Reflexivity, ludic, bricolage, heuristic, reify, homology, indexicality --- what do they really mean? Finally, one of the country's most renowned art historians --- William Innes Homer --- has come to the rescue. For the first time, these and many other terms have been defined and their unwritten meanings revealed. This book is your key to the complexities of modern and postmodern theoretical and critical writing. Professor Homer's background essays, along with an extensive glossary of currently relevant terminology, promise to answer the questions you were always afraid to ask. Beginning with Marxist criticism and extending through feminism, he guides us on a clarifying voyage through the language that is at forefront of art criticism, linguistics, literary theory, anthropology, social theory philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Homer's language is nontechnical and liberated from jargon. He has broken through the barriers of obscurity. Complex ideas are finally easy to understand

The Language of Contemporary Criticism Clarified

Waring, Tina

Reference

Falk Art Reference

The range of Thomas Eakins' (1844-1916) work is dazzling - handsome sporting scenes (sculling, swimming, baseball, boxing..), dramatic historical tableaux, psychologically incisive portraits, as well as sculptures and scientifically astute experiments with photography. His influence as both artist and teacher permeates American art history.

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Seurat and the Science of Painting

Alfred Stieglitz and the American avant-garde

Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, 1902

Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art

Robert Henri and his circle,

Albert Pinkham Ryder: Painter of Dreams

Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession

The Language of Contemporary Criticism Clarified

Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art