PORTRAIT by William S. McFeely ( 9780393330687 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

PORTRAIT
THE LIFE OF THOMAS EAKINS

By:

William S. McFeely

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0393330680

ISBN 13:

9780393330687

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Publisher:

WW NORTON & CO

Pub. date:

17 November, 2007

Pages:

256

Description:

"Provocative... McFeely sensitively chronicles the maturation of this enigmatic Philadelphian."-Matthew Price, New York Times Book Review

Synopsis:

Thomas Eakins painted two worlds in nineteenth-century America: one sure of its values-statesmen, scientists, and philosophers-and one that offered an uncertain vision of the changing times. From the shadow of his mother's depression to his fraught identity as a married man with homosexual inclinations, to his failure to sell his work in his day, Eakins was a man marked equally by passion and melancholy.In this enlightening examination of Eakins's defining artistic moments and key relationships-with wife Susan MacDowell, with subject and friend Walt Whitman, and with several leading scientists of his time-William S. McFeely sheds light on the motivations and desires of a founder of American realism.

Illustrations:

16 pages of colour, 30 b/w illustrations

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WW Norton & Co

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