Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American ArtistOxford University Press, 1 พ.ค. 2005 - 608 หน้า 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. |
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... exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art have praised the catalogue precisely because it avoided discussing this scandalous material.” Perhaps the roots of this idealization lie in ancient theories of the visual arts. Whereas ...
... exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art have praised the catalogue precisely because it avoided discussing this scandalous material.” Perhaps the roots of this idealization lie in ancient theories of the visual arts. Whereas ...
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... Philadelphia Museum t, gift of Mrs. Thomas Eakins and Miss Mary Adeline ims. Eakins hung his Crucifixion by the front door of amily home, where it was the first thing visitors untered. -. s. For example, Eakins's nearly lifesize ...
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... Philadelphia Inquirer, who made a point of featuring his work. The most significant breakthrough came in ... museums: those of Smith College and the Pennsylvania Academy (each of which owned one picture), and of the Metropolitan Museum ...
... Philadelphia Inquirer, who made a point of featuring his work. The most significant breakthrough came in ... museums: those of Smith College and the Pennsylvania Academy (each of which owned one picture), and of the Metropolitan Museum ...
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... Philadelphia Museum of Art accepted fifty oil paintings, as well as other works, donated by Mrs. Eakins and Addie Williams. The energetic director the museum, Fiske Kimball, had met with the two women to arrange the gift. As a ...
... Philadelphia Museum of Art accepted fifty oil paintings, as well as other works, donated by Mrs. Eakins and Addie Williams. The energetic director the museum, Fiske Kimball, had met with the two women to arrange the gift. As a ...
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... Philadelphia Museum in 2002–2003—an exhibition that traveled to both the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum in New York—he systematically excluded revisionist writers both from the catalogue and the lectures that ...
... Philadelphia Museum in 2002–2003—an exhibition that traveled to both the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum in New York—he systematically excluded revisionist writers both from the catalogue and the lectures that ...
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Life and Art | 131 |
The Case of Thomas Eakins | 413 |
Acknowledgements | 478 |
Biographical Key | 481 |
Notes | 487 |
Bibliography | 537 |
Index | 559 |
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