Download or read book EAKINS PHOTOGRAPH PB written by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1994-09-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the foremost American painters of the 19th century, Eakins (1844-1916) was also a pioneer photographer, his most innovative aspect being his emphasis on the nude, then rarely encountered in the US. This catalogue of the Eakins photographs in the Pennsylvania Academy's Charles Bregler collection includes about three-fourths of Eakins' photographic output. It describes the entire collection of 648 images, reproducing 173 bandw photographs, 52 duotones, and a portfolio section of 16 tritones. The accompanying essays suggest new ways of looking at the photographs in terms not only of Eakins' own art but also of the history of the medium. 10.25x9.75" Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Photographs of Thomas Eakins written by Gordon Hendricks and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thomas Eakins His Life and Work Classic Reprint written by Lloyd Goodrich and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thomas Eakins, His Life and Work Writing Master: a sturdy figure, and a round head strongly Irish in character, with bald brow, shaggy eyebrows, patient gray eyes, a long clean-shaven upper lip, an old-fashioned fringe of whiskers below the chin, and an expression at once firm and benign, with a touch of humor; and strong, steady hands, used to years of exacting work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Thomas Eakins His Photographic Works written by Thomas Eakins and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity written by Alan C. Braddock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity is the first book to situate Philadelphia's greatest realist painter in relation to the historical discourse of cultural difference. In this study Alan C. Braddock reveals that modern anthropological perceptions of "culture," which many art historians attribute to Eakins, did not become current until after the artist's death in 1916. Braddock finds in the work of Thomas Eakins a lifelong engagement with aesthetic and social currents that extended well beyond his native city of Philadelphia, indicating the persistence of a worldly sensibility long after he had concluded his formative studies in Europe during the 1860s. Braddock shows how Eakins developed a localized cosmopolitanism all his own, based in Philadelphia but tapped into a global field of visual production."--Jacket.

Download or read book Thomas Eakins written by Amy Beth Werbel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of the 19th century, and considers his provocative behavior in the light of other well-publicized scandals of his era. This illuminating perspective provides a rich, alternative account of Eakins and casts entirely new light on his renowned paintings. Eakins’ modern critics have described his artistic motivations and beliefs as prurient and even pathological. Werbel challenges these interpretations and suggests instead that Eakins is best understood as an artist and teacher devoted to an exacting and profound study of the human body, to equality for women and men, and to middle-class meritocratic and Quaker philosophies.

Download or read book Thomas Eakins written by Elizabeth Johns and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Thomas Eakins, now considered the foremost American painter of the nineteenth century, make portraiture his main field in an era when other major artists disdained such a choice? With a rich discussion of the cultural and vocational context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Elizabeth Johns answers this question.

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Download or read book Thomas Eakins written by William Innes Homer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Olympia Galleries Collection of Thomas Eakins Photographs written by Thomas Eakins and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Portrait written by William S. McFeely and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McFeely sheds new light on painter Thomas Eakins' genius and on the evocativemelancholy of his portraits, particularly of women, which include many of hisremarkable wife, Susan McDowell Eakins. Those deeply perceptive paintings maybe the greatest expressions of his art.

Download or read book Thomas Eakins written by Helen A. Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His 24 rowing works, which include some of the most celebrated and recognized images in the history of American art, are brought together and examined as a group for the first time in this beautiful book. They shed light on the artist's creative process and subsequent achievements as well as on social, cultural, and artistic concerns central to nineteenth-century audiences.

Download or read book Thomas Eakins written by Lloyd Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thomas Eakins written by John Esten and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken from collections across the globe, this book features drawings, paintings, and photos of Eakins's male nudes, which showcase the artist's immense and still influential skill in rendering the male form. 50 illustrations.

Download or read book Ruptures in Truth written by Lucinda White Frachtenberg and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is best known as a realist painter and as an artist with a deep interest in science. Although this legacy has been shaped primarily by his contributions as a painter, Eakins was also an avid amateur photographer. The full scope of his photographic work was little known until 1985, when a cache of his negatives and prints were acquired by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Instead of documenting modern life or to emulating the scientific photography of the late nineteenth century, Eakins's photography indicates a preoccupation with romanticized subject matter, including blurred landscapes and idealized nudes. This contradiction, that a scientific medium would allow a realist artist a place to be less concerned with Realism, is the concern of this research. Eakins, was clearly influenced by the emerging American Pictorialist movement of the late nineteenth century, however, he was using this aesthetic to somewhat different ends. Looking at Eakins's photographs against examples of pictorialist photographers, allows an examination of these differences. Eakins relied on the photographic medium's inherent reference to optical truth, a reliance which then allowed him to explore subject matter and aesthetic themes absent from his painting. As has been suggested of his use of Realism in painting, Eakins's photography positioned viewers to scrutinize their expectations of visual truth. Eakins's photographic romanticism, usually denied an important place in his oeuvre, can, in light of this research, be seen to signify a prescient engagement with modernisms conflicted relationship to objective and subjective truths.

Download or read book Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History written by Akela Reason and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study to explore the Philadelphia realist artist's lifelong fascination with historical themes, this examination of Eakins reveals that he envisioned his artistic legacy in terms different from those by which twentieth-century art historians have typically defined his art.

Download or read book Man Made written by Martin A. Berger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Berger's original readings provide altogether new and compelling ways to understand some of Eakins's most well-known paintings."--Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University "This book is most interesting. Berger rereads a number of Eakins's paintings and makes use of recent investigations about the meaning of manhood in the nineteenth century. Man Made casts much of Eakins's life and work into new light."--Elizabeth Johns, author of Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life "During the last decade, Martin Berger has been the most perceptive and sophisticated critic of masculinity in nineteenth-century American art. With this book he consolidates that analysis triumphantly--and extends its implications, first into a consideration of all of Eakins's oeuvre, and then into related discourses of sexuality, domesticity, and race. Man Made has useful things to say to scholars in all fields of American culture. In addition, it now becomes the most interesting book on Eakins since Elizabeth Johns's groundbreaking work, Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life, first published nearly twenty years ago."--Bruce Robertson, University of California, Santa Barbara