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HOMER'S WARS.(Winslow Homer)(Biography)
The American artist Winslow Homer is back in style, but not yet back in the bigger picture. With the end of the Hundred Years' War of the Real--the battle between abstraction and representation that raged through the twentieth-century art world, and which ended, as all religious wars do, with a truce and a dulled tolerance, the survivors huddled together to watch videos in German Kunsthalles--critics can now take pleasure in his work without taking a position on his stature. But in the course of that war Homer got cut off from the main corps of both armies. You couldn't draft him into the prehistory of abstraction, as you could the landscape-and-sunset Luminists, and yet ...
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