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Amy WerbelPublication Details
BookYale University Press2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N6537.E3 W47 2007 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
The life and work of Thomas Eakins (1844?1916), America?s most celebrated portrait painter, have long generated heated controversy. In this fresh and deeply researched interpretation of the artist, Amy Werbel sets Eakins in the context of Philadelphia?s scientific, medical, and artistic communities (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Eakins, Thomas, — 1844-1916 — Psychology
- Eakins, Thomas, — 1844-1916 — Sexual behavior
- Eakins, Thomas, — 1844-1916
- Artists — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — Attitudes
- Physicians — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — Attitudes
- Anatomy, Artistic — Pennsylvania — Biography
- Anatomy, Artistic — history — Pennsylvania
- History, 19th Century — Pennsylvania
- Medicine in Art — Pennsylvania
- Morals — Pennsylvania
- Sexuality — history — Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia (Pa.) — Social life and customs — History — 19th century
Contents
- From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Eakins : a century of Philadelphia scientists, artists, and provocateurs
- The Agnew Clinic, the Gross Clinic, the Crucifixion, and Swimming : dissecting Eakins’ paintings
- Body casts and "anatomical eyes" : Thomas Eakins, William Williams Keen, and the curriculum at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- Art, pornography, freak shows, medical pictures, and the guilty pleasures of photography in nineteenth- century Philadelphia
- Scandalous exposures : the trials of Thomas Eakins, William Smith Forbes, and Oscar Wilde
- Conclusion : Thomas Eakins’ family values
ISBN
- 9780300116557
- 0300116551
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