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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... pictures. For years, Elizabeth at the Piano, a radiant rendering of the beautiful young Elizabeth Crowell, hung in this spot. Goodrich and Eakins's other biographers have always conjectured that Eakins was in love with her, although he ...
... pictures. For years, Elizabeth at the Piano, a radiant rendering of the beautiful young Elizabeth Crowell, hung in this spot. Goodrich and Eakins's other biographers have always conjectured that Eakins was in love with her, although he ...
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... picture), and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (which owned two). The only place where Eakins's paintings could be seen in quantity was in his own home, and even there it was difficult to make out the character of his work ...
... picture), and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (which owned two). The only place where Eakins's paintings could be seen in quantity was in his own home, and even there it was difficult to make out the character of his work ...
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... picture of Eakins than the one that Goodrich published. One of the most interesting facts, which runs against the conventional view that Eakins was intensely masculine, is that several people noted that his manner was feminine, if not ...
... picture of Eakins than the one that Goodrich published. One of the most interesting facts, which runs against the conventional view that Eakins was intensely masculine, is that several people noted that his manner was feminine, if not ...
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... picture of his behavior, and particularly of his psychological manipulation of women. The notion that Eakins was an innocent victim of misunderstanding becomes almost untenable. The Bregler papers suggest that our view of Eakins's ...
... picture of his behavior, and particularly of his psychological manipulation of women. The notion that Eakins was an innocent victim of misunderstanding becomes almost untenable. The Bregler papers suggest that our view of Eakins's ...
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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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