TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johns,Elizabeth
TI  - Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life 
SN  - 9780691002880
AV  - ND237.E15 J64 1991 
U1  - 759.13 
PY  - 1991///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Painting
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - ART / Individual Artists / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alexander Stirling Calder
KW  - Anders Zorn
KW  - Anthony van Dyck
KW  - Archives of American Art
KW  - Beaumont Newhall
KW  - Beautiful Song
KW  - Brandywine River Museum
KW  - Bureau of American Ethnology
KW  - Carl Zigrosser
KW  - Cecilia Beaux
KW  - Century Association
KW  - Charles Baudelaire
KW  - Charles Willson Peale
KW  - College Art Association
KW  - College of Physicians of Philadelphia
KW  - Counter-Reformation
KW  - Culture and Society
KW  - Currier and Ives
KW  - Daguerreotype
KW  - Documenta
KW  - Dover Publications
KW  - Edmund Clarence Stedman
KW  - Edwin Austin Abbey
KW  - F. O. Matthiessen
KW  - Fairmount Water Works
KW  - Fine art
KW  - Frederick Gutekunst
KW  - G. (novel)
KW  - Gilbert Stuart
KW  - Giovanni Boldini
KW  - Grand manner
KW  - Guillaume Dupuytren
KW  - Gustave Courbet
KW  - Harper's Weekly
KW  - Henri Fantin-Latour
KW  - His Family
KW  - Illustration
KW  - Impressionism
KW  - Israel in Egypt
KW  - Jack Kevorkian
KW  - James Abbott McNeill Whistler
KW  - James Laver
KW  - James Tissot
KW  - John F. Peto
KW  - John Ferguson Weir
KW  - John Neagle
KW  - John Singer Sargent
KW  - Leonardo da Vinci
KW  - Linda Nochlin
KW  - Mathew Brady
KW  - Metropolitan Museum of Art
KW  - Mr. John
KW  - Mrs
KW  - Museo del Prado
KW  - Napoleon Sarony
KW  - National Gallery of Art
KW  - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
KW  - New Poems
KW  - New York Graphic
KW  - Oratorio
KW  - Pathology
KW  - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
KW  - Philadelphia Museum of Art
KW  - Physician
KW  - Picturesque
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Pompeo Batoni
KW  - Potboiler
KW  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
KW  - Rembrandt Peale
KW  - S. Weir Mitchell
KW  - Sadakichi Hartmann
KW  - Samuel Murray
KW  - Self-Made Man (book)
KW  - Smithsonian Institution
KW  - Stanley Sadie
KW  - The Agnew Clinic
KW  - The Concert Singer
KW  - The Gross Clinic
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - The Phillips Collection
KW  - The Physician
KW  - The Realist
KW  - The Three Ages of Man (Titian)
KW  - Thomas Bond (physician)
KW  - Thomas Carlyle
KW  - Thomas Couture
KW  - Thomas Eakins
KW  - Thomas Sully
KW  - Union League of Philadelphia
KW  - V
KW  - Visual art of the United States
KW  - Whitney Museum of American Art
KW  - William Harnett
KW  - William Merritt Chase
KW  - William Rush and His Model
KW  - William Rush
KW  - William Sidney Mount
KW  - William-Adolphe Bouguereau
KW  - Wood engraving
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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