Thomas Eakins
Author | : William Innes Homer |
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Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : William Innes Homer |
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Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Amy Beth Werbel |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300116557 |
The life and work of Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), America’s most celebrated portrait painter, have long generated heated controversy. In this fresh and deeply researched interpretation of the artist, Amy Werbel sets Eakins in the context of Philadelphia’s scientific, medical, and artistic communities of the 19th century, and considers his provocative behavior in the light of other well-publicized scandals of his era. This illuminating perspective provides a rich, alternative account of Eakins and casts entirely new light on his renowned paintings. Eakins’ modern critics have described his artistic motivations and beliefs as prurient and even pathological. Werbel challenges these interpretations and suggests instead that Eakins is best understood as an artist and teacher devoted to an exacting and profound study of the human body, to equality for women and men, and to middle-class meritocratic and Quaker philosophies.
Author | : Elizabeth Johns |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 1991-02-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1400820251 |
Why did Thomas Eakins, now considered the foremost American painter of the nineteenth century, make portraiture his main field in an era when other major artists disdained such a choice? With a rich discussion of the cultural and vocational context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Elizabeth Johns answers this question.
Author | : William Innes Homer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Art |
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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.
Author | : William S. McFeely |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Painters |
ISBN | : 9780393050653 |
McFeely sheds new light on painter Thomas Eakins' genius and on the evocativemelancholy of his portraits, particularly of women, which include many of hisremarkable wife, Susan McDowell Eakins. Those deeply perceptive paintings maybe the greatest expressions of his art.
Author | : Sidney Kirkpatrick |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2006-03-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300128487 |
Thomas Eakins was misunderstood in life, his brilliant work earned little acclaim, and hidden demons tortured and drove him. Yet the portraits he painted more than a century ago captivate us today, and he is now widely acclaimed as the finest portrait painter our nation has ever produced. This book recounts the artist's life in fascinating detail, drawing on a treasure trove of Eakins family correspondence and papers that have only recently been discovered. Never before has Thomas Eakins's story been told with such drama, clarity, and accuracy. Sidney Kirkpatrick sets the painter's life and art in the wider context of the changing world he devoted himself to portraying, and he also addresses the artist's private life-the contradictory impulses, obsessions, and possible psychological illness that fired his work. Kirkpatrick underscores Eakins's unflinching integrity as an artist and discloses how his profound appreciation of the beauty of the human form was both the source of his greatness and ultimately of his undoing. Nevertheless, the author observes, Eakins has had his "revenge," inspiring a new generation of realist painters and gaining the recognition that eluded him in life.
Author | : Gordon Hendricks |
Publisher | : New York : Grossman Publishers |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Lloyd Goodrich |
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Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Art, American |
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Author | : Lloyd Goodrich |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2017-05-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780259844808 |
Excerpt from Thomas Eakins, His Life and Work Writing Master: a sturdy figure, and a round head strongly Irish in character, with bald brow, shaggy eyebrows, patient gray eyes, a long clean-shaven upper lip, an old-fashioned fringe of whiskers below the chin, and an expression at once firm and benign, with a touch of humor; and strong, steady hands, used to years of exacting work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Henry Adams |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2005-05-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0190288876 |
Thomas Eakins is widely considered one of the great American painters, an artist whose uncompromising realism helped move American art from the Victorian era into the modern age. He is also acclaimed as a paragon of integrity, one who stood up for his artistic beliefs even when they brought him personal and professional difficulty--as when he was fired from the Pennsylvania Academy of Art for removing a model's loincloth in a drawing class. Yet beneath the surface of Eakins's pictures is a sense of brooding unease and latent violence--a discomfort voiced by one of his sitters who said his portrait "decapitated" her. In Eakins Revealed, art historian Henry Adams examines the dark side of Eakins's life and work, in a startling new biography that will change our understanding of this American icon. Based on close study of Eakins's work and new research in the Bregler papers, a major collection never fully mined by scholars, this volume shows Eakins was not merely uncompromising, but harsh and brutal both in his personal life and in his painting. Adams uncovers the bitter personal feuds and family tragedies surrounding Eakins--his mother died insane and his niece committed suicide amid allegations that Eakins had seduced her--and documents the artist's tendency toward psychological abuse and sexual harassment of those around him. This provocative book not only unveils new facts about Eakins's life; more important, it makes sense, for the first time, of the enigmas of his work. Eakins Revealed promises to be a controversial biography that will attract readers inside and outside the art world, and fascinate anyone concerned with the mystery of artistic genius.