Thomas Eakins and the cultures of modernity Alan C. Braddock

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braddock, Alan C., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916--Criticism and interpretation.

Eakins, Thomas.

Art and society--United States--History--19th century.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

x, 291 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2009.

Contents:

Introduction: "This current confusion" : Thomas Eakins before cultures

"Amongst strangers" : studies in character abroad

"What kind of people are there" : local color, cosmopolitanism, and the limits of civic realism

"To learn their ways that I might paint some" : cowboys, Indians, and evolutionary aesthetics

Coda: "Distinctly American art" : Thomas Eakins, national genius

Notes

Selected bibliography

List of illustrations

Index.

Notes:

"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-278) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP credit line: Publication, Cover illustration from Mitchell's Intermediate or Secondary Geography, 1849 (Dj 584) 1849.

ISBN:

9780520255203 (cloth : alk. paper)

0520255208 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

262694289