Abstract
In a series of putatively pastoral genre paintings Homer produced beginning around 1870 he represented early male adolescence as an age of transition marked by alienation and loss, with weaning, or symbolic struggle over mother's milk, his governing metaphor. This figure of compromised access to nurture, organized around such visual and structural symbols as haystacks, ropes, and fences, while concerned most literally with the drama of male childhood becoming, served Homer additionally as vehicle for reflection both on troubled race relations, and on the collapse of pastoral itself as a viable pictorial mode, in the decade following the Civil War.
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