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Thomas Eakins, the heroism of modern life /
"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 ce...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1983.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Eakins, modern life, and the portrait
- 2. Max Schmitt in a single scull, or The champion single sculls
- 3. The Gross Clinic, or Portrait of professor Gross
- 4. William Rush carving his allegorical figure of the Schuylkill River
- 5. The concert singer
- 6. Walt Whitman.