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Umfang: 1 online resource (328 p.)

ISBN: 9781400820252

Inhalt: 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.

Anmerkung: 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 , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781400820252

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400820252

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400820252

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 207 pages [91] pages of plates) , 142 illustrations (some color), portraits

ISBN: 9780300273441 , 0300273444 , 9781400820252 , 1400820251 , 1322949328 , 9781322949321

Inhalt: "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"--Publisher's description

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index , 1. Eakins, modern life, and the portrait -- 2. Max Schmitt in a single scull, or The champion single sculls -- 3. The Gross Clinic, or Portrait of professor Gross -- 4. William Rush carving his allegorical figure of the Schuylkill River -- 5. The concert singer -- 6. Walt Whitman. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0691040222

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780691040226

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0691002886

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780691002880

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Johns, Elizabeth, 1937- Thomas Eakins, the heroism of modern life ISBN 0691040222

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Kunstgeschichte

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