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Thomas Eakins : The Heroism of Modern Life / Elizabeth Johns.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1984Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691002880
  • 9781400820252
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 759.13
LOC classification:
  • ND237.E15 J64 1991
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781400820252

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.

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