Thomas Eakins

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Art History/American Historv THOMAS EAKINS The Heroism of Modern Life Elizabeth Johns "The publication of Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life by Elizabeth Johns is an event of somé importance, for I believe that this is one of the best studies ever written about an American painter. . . . [The main] chapters funetion as studies of individual pictures, but they are woven with sueh great skill that they reflect on ncarlv all of Eakins's major works and they deal with manv of the important issues about him. They alsó teach us more about Eakins's subjects and his era than one would ha\'e thought either necessary or possible."-Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The New Tork Times Book Review "[This volumc] will doubtless increase still further the current popularit}' of Eakins's work. . . . It draws out the depth and intensitv of meaning and feeliiig from Eakins's paintings. . . . For manv decades no book so thoughtfullv considered, so beautifully crafted, and so accurate and illuminating... Tovább

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Art History/American Historv THOMAS EAKINS The Heroism of Modern Life Elizabeth Johns "The publication of Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life by Elizabeth Johns is an event of somé importance, for I believe that this is one of the best studies ever written about an American painter. . . . [The main] chapters funetion as studies of individual pictures, but they are woven with sueh great skill that they reflect on ncarlv all of Eakins's major works and they deal with manv of the important issues about him. They alsó teach us more about Eakins's subjects and his era than one would ha\'e thought either necessary or possible."-Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The New Tork Times Book Review "[This volumc] will doubtless increase still further the current popularit}' of Eakins's work. . . . It draws out the depth and intensitv of meaning and feeliiig from Eakins's paintings. . . . For manv decades no book so thoughtfullv considered, so beautifully crafted, and so accurate and illuminating in its conclusions has been written in the American field."-Henry Adams, The Art Bulletin "To accomplish her goal of explaining Eakins's use of portraiture to affirm the hcroic possibilities of life in the American nineteenth century, Johns moves with confidence across a remarkable rangé of subjects. Her erudite bibliographic essay reviews the principal literaturc in fields as diverse as sports history, the historv of medicine in both Europe and America, American cultural history, the tradition of the portrait, music in the nineteenth century, and the scholarship of American art in generál and of Eakins in particular. . . . Johns has here placed Eakins securelv in the company of the greatest interpreters of his age."-Marc Pachter, Reviews in American History "Professor Elizabeth Johns's book is an exemplary study of [Eakins] and an example of the best art historical writing currently being produced. ... In creating a portrait in writing of Eakins as a hero, Professor Johns thus takes upon herself his heroic mantle."-Katharine Martinez, Art Documentation Elizabeth Johns is Silfen Term Professor of American Art History at the Universitv of Pennsylvania. Vissza