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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... fact, the papers seemed to me to provide the elements necessary for a complete reinterpretation of Eakins and a deeper understanding of the inner forces that drove him. By the time I was finished, my essay was much too long for ...
... fact, the papers seemed to me to provide the elements necessary for a complete reinterpretation of Eakins and a deeper understanding of the inner forces that drove him. By the time I was finished, my essay was much too long for ...
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The Secret Life of an American Artist Henry Adams. Victorian values, in fact its language and storyline were profoundly sentimental. Throughout, Goodrich portrayed Eakins's supporters as moral paragons, whereas those who played a role in ...
The Secret Life of an American Artist Henry Adams. Victorian values, in fact its language and storyline were profoundly sentimental. Throughout, Goodrich portrayed Eakins's supporters as moral paragons, whereas those who played a role in ...
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... fact that he had just been pushed out of the spotlight of critical attention by a more radical group, the Abstract Expressionists. Nonetheless, it is noteworthy that of all American painters, Soyer unhesitatingly chose Eakins to ...
... fact that he had just been pushed out of the spotlight of critical attention by a more radical group, the Abstract Expressionists. Nonetheless, it is noteworthy that of all American painters, Soyer unhesitatingly chose Eakins to ...
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... fact, while Leslie Katz (taking a hint from Schendler) does something even more peculiar. In a remarkable turnabout, he verbally transforms a portrait of lethargy, inelegance, and weakness into an expression of alertness, grace, and ...
... fact, while Leslie Katz (taking a hint from Schendler) does something even more peculiar. In a remarkable turnabout, he verbally transforms a portrait of lethargy, inelegance, and weakness into an expression of alertness, grace, and ...
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... fact, Eakins was by no means classically handsome, and by early middle life he had become obese and flatulent. In photographs he tends to look morose. While Goodrich maintains that Eakins had intensely observant eyes, this is not born ...
... fact, Eakins was by no means classically handsome, and by early middle life he had become obese and flatulent. In photographs he tends to look morose. While Goodrich maintains that Eakins had intensely observant eyes, this is not born ...
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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