Thomas Eakins : : The Heroism of Modern Life / / Elizabeth Johns.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Johns, Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1991]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustration --; Dimensions of Eakins' Works --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; Thomas Eakins - The Heroism of Modern Life --; Chapter One. Eakins, Modern Life, and the Portrait --; Chapter Two. Max Schmitt in a Single Scull, or The Champion single Sculls --; Chapter Three. The Gross Clinic, or Portrait of Professor Gross --; Chapter Four. William Rush Craving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River --; Chapter Five. The Concert Singer --; Chapter Six. Walt Whitman --; bibliographic Essay --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400820252; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400820252?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elizabeth Johns.

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.