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Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood (Men and Masculinity)
 List Price: Price: $26.92 You Save: $0.03 (%) DescriptionOften censured during his lifetime for his insistence on studying and painting from the nude, Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is now acclaimed as one of America's greatest realist painters. Man Made examines Eakins's art and life, illustrating how the artist used his canvases to cope with the complex requirements of Victorian gender. Martin Berger reads a series of Eakins's paintings, ranging from early to late works, giving a nuanced and elegant examination of Eakins's portrayal of white, middle-class manhood. This provocative cultural art history treats these paintings in terms of what they reveal about Eakins's own identity as well as the nation's changing ideals of manhood during the final years of the nineteenth century.
Thomas Eakins
 List Price: $6.95 DescriptionThomas Eakins hailed as "the strongest, most profound realist in nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century American art", was born and lived most his life in Philadelphia. The son of a writing master and calligraphy teacher, Thomas learned precise line drawing, perspective, and the use of a grid by the age of twelve. He attended Central High School where he excelled in mechanical drawing. Later, he studied drawing and anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. From 1866 to 1870, he studied art in Europe with realist painters Jean-Leon Gerome and Leon Bonnat. Eakins returned to the Pennsylvania Academy to volunteer teach in 1876, but later became a salaried professor and then director in 1882. Unfortunately, controversial teaching methods and inappropriate behavior in the classroom, forced the Academy's board of directors to ask for Eakins resignation in 1886. In addition to being an accomplished painter and sculptor, Eakins has been credited with having "introduced the camera to the American art studio." He was particularly interested in photographic motion studies, and indoor/outdoor nudes of the human figure. Approximately eight hundred photographs, mostly figure studies, are attributed to Eakins.Thomas Eakins art book contains 110+ realist reproductions of indoor/outdoor life paintings, watercraft, and portraits with title and date. Thomas Eakins hailed as "the strongest, most profound realist in nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century American art", was born and lived most his life in Philadelphia. The son of a writing master and calligraphy teacher, Thomas learned precise line drawing, perspective, and the use of a grid by the age of twelve. He attended Central High School where he excelled in mechanical drawing. Later, he studied drawing and anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. From 1866 to 1870, he studied art in Europe with realist painters Jean-Leon Gerome and Leon Bonnat. Eakins returned to the Pennsylvania Academy to volunteer teach in 1876, but later became a salaried professor and then director in 1882. Unfortunately, controversial teaching methods and inappropriate behavior in the classroom, forced the Academy's board of directors to ask for Eakins resignation in 1886. In addition to being an accomplished painter and sculptor, Eakins has been credited with having "introduced the camera to the American art studio." He was particularly interested in photographic motion studies, and indoor/outdoor nudes of the human figure. Approximately eight hundred photographs, mostly figure studies, are attributed to Eakins. Thomas Eakins art book contains 110+ realist reproductions of indoor/outdoor life paintings, watercraft, and portraits with title and date.
Thomas Eakins : The Absolute Male
 List Price: Price: $82.49 DescriptionOften criticized during his lifetime for his insistence on studying and painting the male nude, accomplished draftsman, anatomist, and artist Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is now acclaimed as one of America's greatest realist painters. Eakins believed in a classical approach to art, and made no compromises with the mores of his time. His insistence on having female students draw from live male nude models caused him to be dismissed from one important teaching post and created a storm of controversy which substantially hurt his career. Only at the end of his life was his work fully recognized as equal to that of some of the great European old masters. Taken from collections across the globe, this book features a stunning collection of drawings, paintings, and photographs of Eakins's male nudes, which showcase the artist's immense and still influential skill in rendering the male form. A major Eakins retrospective will be at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the spring of 2002.
Thomas Eakins
 List Price: Price: $69.38 You Save: $5.62 (7%) DescriptionThomas Eakins (1844-1916) is one of the most fascinating and important personalities in the history of American art. His memorable and much-loved scenes of rowing, sailing, and boxing as well as his deeply moving portraits are renowned for their vibrant realism and dramatic intensity. This beautiful and insightful book, published in conjunction with a major exhibition on the life and career of Eakins - the first in twenty years - presents a fresh perspective on the artist and his remarkable accomplishments. Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 of Eakins's most significant paintings, watercolours, drawings, and sculpture, the book features essays by prominent scholars who place his art in the context of the history and culture of late nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where he lived. The contributors also discuss how Eakins applied his French academic training to subjects that were distinctly American and part of his own immediate and complex experience. Eakins's own photographs, which he used as part of his unique creative process, are also examined for the first time in the full context of his life's work. The exhibition Thomas Eakins will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 4th October, 2001 to 6th January, 2002; the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, from 3rd February to 12th May, 2002; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from 10th June to 15th Spetember, 2002.
A Drawing Manual by Thomas Eakins (Primary Sources in American Art)
 List Price: Price: $9.46 You Save: $15.54 (62%) DescriptionWhile a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the celebrated American artist Thomas Eakins (18441916) prepared a drawing manual for his students. The manuscript developed out of his famous lectures at the Academy on linear perspective, mechanical drawing, reflections, and sculptural relief and included illustrations by the artist. Following his forced resignation from the Academy in 1886, Eakins abandoned plans to publish the manual, and the parts were dispersed. Today, drafts of the manuscript reside at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and at the Academy, which also holds many of the illustrations.
A Drawing Manual brings together Eakins’s text, based on a concordance of the drafts, and his original drawings for the project. This remarkable publication reveals Eakins’s personality and teaching philosophy, demonstrating why the artist was renowned as a plainspoken, effective teacher. In her fascinating introduction, Kathleen A. Foster sketches the background of the manuscript in the artist’s life and the story of the publication project. Amy B. Werbel provides an illuminating essay on Eakins’s place in the tradition of perspective drawing. This book is essential for any student, scholar, curator, or individual interested in American art and art education.
Thomas Eakins: Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
 List Price: Price: $44.22 You Save: $15.78 (26%) DescriptionThe life and work of Thomas Eakins (18441916), America’s most celebrated portrait painter, have long generated heated controversy. In this fresh and deeply researched interpretation of the artist, Amy Werbel sets Eakins in the context of Philadelphia’s scientific, medical, and artistic communities of the 19th century, and considers his provocative behavior in the light of other well-publicized scandals of his era. This illuminating perspective provides a rich, alternative account of Eakins and casts entirely new light on his renowned paintings. Eakins’ modern critics have described his artistic motivations and beliefs as prurient and even pathological. Werbel challenges these interpretations and suggests instead that Eakins is best understood as an artist and teacher devoted to an exacting and profound study of the human body, to equality for women and men, and to middle-class meritocratic and Quaker philosophies. Eakins Thomas News
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KYW1060.comPenn freshmen orientation to focus on EakinsInstead of having the incoming class read a common book and discuss it, Penn's 2500 freshmen will study and discuss a painting: Thomas Eakins' "The Gross For New Students at Penn, This Year's Project is a PaintingPenn puts a new spin on the freshman projectall 9 news articles »