中文简介：

本书通过一系列描绘冲突的画面对美国标志性画家Winslow Homer（1836-1910）的作品进行了全新的探索，“冲突”是他多产的职业生涯中反复出现的一个主题。Homer的艺术中始终贯穿着对斗争的迷恋——从内战和重建的标志性图像到令人眼花缭乱的热带作品和不朽的海军陆战队，并揭示了他一生都在参与种族、自然和环境等主题。

本书阐明了Homer对他那个时代复杂的社会和政治问题的关注——战争、奴隶制、帝国主义——以及他对人类生命的脆弱性和自然的主导地位的广泛关注。这些强有力的主题存在于他早期的内战和重建时期的画作中，这些画作探讨了冲突对景观、士兵和以前被奴役者的影响。在他后来描绘农村生活、戏剧性的救援和狩猎的画面中，这些主题仍然存在，表现出人类与自然界之间不安的关系。在他生命的最后阶段，人的形象被削弱为微小的、无关紧要的存在，而海洋则获得了关键的角色。

这本图文并茂的画册将配合国家美术馆的回顾展而出版，该展览是与纽约大都会艺术博物馆合作举办的。

英文简介：

A fresh exploration of the work of iconic American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910) through the lens of conflict, a recurring theme in his prolific career. A persistent fascination with struggle permeates Homer's art⁠—from emblematic images of the Civil War and Reconstruction to dazzling tropical works and monumental marines⁠—and reveals his lifelong engagement with the charged subjects of race, nature, and the environment.

This publication illuminates Homer's preoccupation with the complex social and political issues of his era—war, slavery, imperialism—as well as his broader concerns with the fragility of human life and dominance of nature. These powerful themes are present in his earliest Civil War and Reconstruction paintings, which explore the effect of the conflict on the landscape, soldiers, and the formerly enslaved. They continue through his later images of rural life, dramatic rescues, and hunting⁠—paintings that grapple with the often uneasy relationship between humans and the natural world. Toward the end of his life, human figures were reduced to tiny, irrelevant presences, while the ocean acquired a pivotal role.

This richly illustrated volume will be published to accompany a retrospective at the National Gallery, organized in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.