Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins, William S. Mcfeely

Portrait: The Life of Thomas EakinsWilliam S. Mcfeely

Art Nr.: 0393330680

ISBN 13: 9780393330687

Release year: 2007

Published by: W. W. Norton & Company

Cover: Taschenbuch

Cover Format: 227x155x20 mm

Pages: 256

Weight: 395 g

Language: Englisch

Author: William S. Mcfeely

Description 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. Information of Author William S. McFeely is Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen Grant: A Biography, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Parkman Prize Frederick Douglass, which received the Lincoln Prize Sapelo's People: A Long Walk into Freedom and Proximity to Death. Kurzbeschreibung Titel: Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins, Einband: Taschenbuch, Autor: William S. Mcfeely, Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, Sprache: Englisch, Seiten: 256, Maße: 227x155x20 mm, Gewicht: 395 g, Verkäufer: Wegmann1855, Schlagworte: Biography / Autobiography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers Powered by INFORIUS