ARHS 3600 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Four Daughters, Visual Poetry, The Peacock Room
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Twain esque special kind sensibility: similar to noble savage, have natural purity and honesty, one adult present, barefoot boy referencing nostalgia for pre-industrial america. Winslow homer, a summer"s night, (cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:891)(cid:882: strange painting, two girls dancing as partners; lit by lamp of house, dancing lovingly on summer night. Winslow homer, northeaster, 1895: sea life giving and taking eternal presence, forces of nature. Winslow homer, fox hunt, 1893: embody loneliness, mortality. Winslow homer, right and left, 1909: gave no name referring double barrel of shotgun used to bring down birds, right bird dead, left trying to escape shot, further along on narrative on isolation, death, cycles of nature, mortality. Thomas eakins, students at the site of the swimming hole, 1883: photo, discussion homo-eroticism, suggestion that painting or being intrigued by human body implies homosexuality on part of painter, most interesting figures include difference in homosexual/homosocial/homoerotic.
