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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... wife, Susan, in this spot, but seems to have preferred having her look at likenesses of other women he had loved. He did paint two small portraits of Susan, which I will discuss in their place, both extremely unflattering. But there is ...
... wife, Susan, in this spot, but seems to have preferred having her look at likenesses of other women he had loved. He did paint two small portraits of Susan, which I will discuss in their place, both extremely unflattering. But there is ...
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... wife “lived simply and frugally,” and seldom left home. Hard working and abstemious, Eakins paid little attention to dress or appearances and focused intently on his work. In his search for character he disregarded conventional beauty ...
... wife “lived simply and frugally,” and seldom left home. Hard working and abstemious, Eakins paid little attention to dress or appearances and focused intently on his work. In his search for character he disregarded conventional beauty ...
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... for and defending her husband. outed to el Murray, mas Eakins His Wife with 3,. Photographer unknown, Susan Macdowell Eakins with Daisies in Charles Bregler, ca. . Albumen print, 9⁄16 x.
... for and defending her husband. outed to el Murray, mas Eakins His Wife with 3,. Photographer unknown, Susan Macdowell Eakins with Daisies in Charles Bregler, ca. . Albumen print, 9⁄16 x.
Pagina 38
... Wife with 3, 191O-I9I4. in silver print, 3 % in., tion of Daniel etrich II. One ograph 's Eakins and ife together, asual shot taken in old age. their courtship. The relationship appears to have been pressed upon him by his father, and ...
... Wife with 3, 191O-I9I4. in silver print, 3 % in., tion of Daniel etrich II. One ograph 's Eakins and ife together, asual shot taken in old age. their courtship. The relationship appears to have been pressed upon him by his father, and ...
Pagina 44
... wife's letters, and the letters of his fiancée, Kathrin Crowell.” With regard to the controversies that surrounded him, Eakins generally destroyed the accusatory documents, keeping only the papers he used in his own defense. Key pieces ...
... wife's letters, and the letters of his fiancée, Kathrin Crowell.” With regard to the controversies that surrounded him, Eakins generally destroyed the accusatory documents, keeping only the papers he used in his own defense. Key pieces ...
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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