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Portrait : The Life of Thomas Eakins

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Overview

Thomas Eakins painted two worlds in nineteenth-century America: one sure of its values--statesmen, scientists, and philosophers--and one that offered an uncertain vision of the changing times. From the shadow of his mother's depression to his fraught identity as a married man with homosexual inclinations, to his failure to sell his work in his day, Eakins was a man marked equally by passion and melancholy.In this enlightening examination of Eakins's defining artistic moments and key relationships--with wife Susan MacDowell, with subject and friend Walt Whitman, and with several leading scientists of his time--William S. McFeely sheds light on the motivations and desires of a founder of American realism.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393330687
  • ISBN-10: 0393330680
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: November 2007
  • Dimensions: 9.22 x 6.12 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.88 pounds
  • Page Count: 256

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