Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American ArtistOxford University Press, 1 mei 2005 - 608 pagina's 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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... Crowell The Insanity of Lillian Hammitt Explanations and Enigmas Analyzing Eakins PART Two: Life and Art An American in Paris All in the Family Turning the Stake The Gross Clinic William Rush and His Model A Fine Old ROw Naked in ...
... Crowell The Insanity of Lillian Hammitt Explanations and Enigmas Analyzing Eakins PART Two: Life and Art An American in Paris All in the Family Turning the Stake The Gross Clinic William Rush and His Model A Fine Old ROw Naked in ...
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... Crowell, the husband of Eakins's sister Frances, threatened to kill Eakins in the living room, the dining room, or somewhere in the labyrinth of the upper floors; and it is not clear which bedroom belonged to Eakins's sister Margaret ...
... Crowell, the husband of Eakins's sister Frances, threatened to kill Eakins in the living room, the dining room, or somewhere in the labyrinth of the upper floors; and it is not clear which bedroom belonged to Eakins's sister Margaret ...
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... Crowell, hung in this spot. Goodrich and Eakins's other biographers have always conjectured that Eakins was in love with her, although he was engaged for years not to her but to her sister, Kathrin. Toward the end of his life Eakins ...
... Crowell, hung in this spot. Goodrich and Eakins's other biographers have always conjectured that Eakins was in love with her, although he was engaged for years not to her but to her sister, Kathrin. Toward the end of his life Eakins ...
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... his marriage, Eakins hung his romantic portrait of Elizabeth Crowell in the place of honor over the mantelpiece in the living room. Sidney Wainthrob of Budd Studios, Lloyd Goodrich with the Painting.
... his marriage, Eakins hung his romantic portrait of Elizabeth Crowell in the place of honor over the mantelpiece in the living room. Sidney Wainthrob of Budd Studios, Lloyd Goodrich with the Painting.
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... Crowell and to his sister Frances. Like many of Eakins's letters, these contain abrupt shifts of direction. He opened his letter to Crowell by noting that “I look upon love & marriage as two very different things,” a statement that he ...
... Crowell and to his sister Frances. Like many of Eakins's letters, these contain abrupt shifts of direction. He opened his letter to Crowell by noting that “I look upon love & marriage as two very different things,” a statement that he ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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