Thomas Eakins : The Heroism of Modern Life /
Johns, Elizabeth
Thomas Eakins : The Heroism of Modern Life / Elizabeth Johns. - 1 online resource (328 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustration -- Dimensions of Eakins' Works -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Thomas Eakins - The Heroism of Modern Life -- Chapter One. Eakins, Modern Life, and the Portrait -- Chapter Two. Max Schmitt in a Single Scull, or The Champion single Sculls -- Chapter Three. The Gross Clinic, or Portrait of Professor Gross -- Chapter Four. William Rush Craving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River -- Chapter Five. The Concert Singer -- Chapter Six. Walt Whitman -- bibliographic Essay -- Index
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691002880 9781400820252
10.1515/9781400820252 doi
Painting--Psychological aspects.
ARTÂ / Individual Artists / General.
Alexander Stirling Calder. Anders Zorn. Anthony van Dyck. Archives of American Art. Beaumont Newhall. Beautiful Song. Brandywine River Museum. Bureau of American Ethnology. Carl Zigrosser. Cecilia Beaux. Century Association. Charles Baudelaire. Charles Willson Peale. College Art Association. College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Counter-Reformation. Culture and Society. Currier and Ives. Daguerreotype. Documenta. Dover Publications. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Edwin Austin Abbey. F. O. Matthiessen. Fairmount Water Works. Fine art. Frederick Gutekunst. G. (novel). Gilbert Stuart. Giovanni Boldini. Grand manner. Guillaume Dupuytren. Gustave Courbet. Harper's Weekly. Henri Fantin-Latour. His Family. Illustration. Impressionism. Israel in Egypt. Jack Kevorkian. James Abbott McNeill Whistler. James Laver. James Tissot. John F. Peto. John Ferguson Weir. John Neagle. John Singer Sargent. Leonardo da Vinci. Linda Nochlin. Mathew Brady. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. John. Mrs. Museo del Prado. Napoleon Sarony. National Gallery of Art. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. New Poems. New York Graphic. Oratorio. Pathology. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Physician. Picturesque. Poetry. Pompeo Batoni. Potboiler. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Rembrandt Peale. S. Weir Mitchell. Sadakichi Hartmann. Samuel Murray. Self-Made Man (book). Smithsonian Institution. Stanley Sadie. The Agnew Clinic. The Concert Singer. The Gross Clinic. The Other Hand. The Phillips Collection. The Physician. The Realist. The Three Ages of Man (Titian). Thomas Bond (physician). Thomas Carlyle. Thomas Couture. Thomas Eakins. Thomas Sully. Union League of Philadelphia. V. Visual art of the United States. Whitney Museum of American Art. William Harnett. William Merritt Chase. William Rush and His Model. William Rush. William Sidney Mount. William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Wood engraving.
ND237.E15 J64 1991
759.13
Thomas Eakins : The Heroism of Modern Life / Elizabeth Johns. - 1 online resource (328 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustration -- Dimensions of Eakins' Works -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Thomas Eakins - The Heroism of Modern Life -- Chapter One. Eakins, Modern Life, and the Portrait -- Chapter Two. Max Schmitt in a Single Scull, or The Champion single Sculls -- Chapter Three. The Gross Clinic, or Portrait of Professor Gross -- Chapter Four. William Rush Craving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River -- Chapter Five. The Concert Singer -- Chapter Six. Walt Whitman -- bibliographic Essay -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691002880 9781400820252
10.1515/9781400820252 doi
Painting--Psychological aspects.
ARTÂ / Individual Artists / General.
Alexander Stirling Calder. Anders Zorn. Anthony van Dyck. Archives of American Art. Beaumont Newhall. Beautiful Song. Brandywine River Museum. Bureau of American Ethnology. Carl Zigrosser. Cecilia Beaux. Century Association. Charles Baudelaire. Charles Willson Peale. College Art Association. College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Counter-Reformation. Culture and Society. Currier and Ives. Daguerreotype. Documenta. Dover Publications. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Edwin Austin Abbey. F. O. Matthiessen. Fairmount Water Works. Fine art. Frederick Gutekunst. G. (novel). Gilbert Stuart. Giovanni Boldini. Grand manner. Guillaume Dupuytren. Gustave Courbet. Harper's Weekly. Henri Fantin-Latour. His Family. Illustration. Impressionism. Israel in Egypt. Jack Kevorkian. James Abbott McNeill Whistler. James Laver. James Tissot. John F. Peto. John Ferguson Weir. John Neagle. John Singer Sargent. Leonardo da Vinci. Linda Nochlin. Mathew Brady. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. John. Mrs. Museo del Prado. Napoleon Sarony. National Gallery of Art. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. New Poems. New York Graphic. Oratorio. Pathology. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Physician. Picturesque. Poetry. Pompeo Batoni. Potboiler. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Rembrandt Peale. S. Weir Mitchell. Sadakichi Hartmann. Samuel Murray. Self-Made Man (book). Smithsonian Institution. Stanley Sadie. The Agnew Clinic. The Concert Singer. The Gross Clinic. The Other Hand. The Phillips Collection. The Physician. The Realist. The Three Ages of Man (Titian). Thomas Bond (physician). Thomas Carlyle. Thomas Couture. Thomas Eakins. Thomas Sully. Union League of Philadelphia. V. Visual art of the United States. Whitney Museum of American Art. William Harnett. William Merritt Chase. William Rush and His Model. William Rush. William Sidney Mount. William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Wood engraving.
ND237.E15 J64 1991
759.13