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Price: $80.00
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Sale: $9.95
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Darrell Sewell
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
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Publication Date: 2001-10-01
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Thomas 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.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $12.79
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas Eakins
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 741.2
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Publication Date: 2005-03-11
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: While a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the celebrated American artist Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) 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.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $39.58
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Amy Werbel
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
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Publication Date: 2007-06-29
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: The life and work of Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), 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.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $10.16
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Manufacturer: Universe Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Esten
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Publisher: Universe Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.2
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Publication Date: 2002-07-05
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Reading Level: 80
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Description: Often 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.
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Price: $95.00
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Sale: $266.42
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Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: William Innes Homer
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Publisher: Abbeville Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.2
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Publication Date: 1992-09
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Reading Level: 276
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Description: This profusely illustrated critical biography of one of the nineteenth century's greatest artists captures the unique spirit of the art and of the man. The first edition of Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art, published in l992, was selected by Choice as one of the best art books of the year. This second edition of what has become the standard book on the artist adds an appendix discussing recent discoveries about Eakins's use of photography and a bibliographical addendum. "In his devotion to American subjects," Homer writes, "Eakins seems to have responded to Walt Whitman's challenge to portray life in the United States rather than worn-out European myths and allegories." The variety of Eakins's work is remarkable--lively sporting scenes, psychologically incisive portraits, dramatic historical tableaux, as well as numerous sculptures and innovative photographs. The full range of this art is explored here in revealing detail. His working methods are illuminated by telling comparisons between his paintings and the photographs and drawings that were part of his creative process. Quotations from his notebooks, letters, and other writings provide additional insights into his artistic personality, and a chapter on his career as a teacher reveals the strengths and weaknesses of that strife-filled realm of his life. Eakins's willful independence as both artist and teacher often entangled him in controversy. His many battles with a hidebound Establishment had led previous writers to romanticize Eakins as a martyr of American art. Professor Homer's revisionist study of Eakins's career--based on long years of research and previously unexamined visual and documentary sources--helped to demythologize this complex artist without diminishing his brilliance or the importance of his art. Other details: 240 illustrations, 100 in full color
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $19.75
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Martin A. Berger
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.2
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Publication Date: 2000-08-07
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Reading Level: 181
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Description: Often 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.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $300.00
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: DANLYK S
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 779.092
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Publication Date: 1994-09-17
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Reading Level: 256
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Elizabeth Johns
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
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Publication Date: 1991-02-01
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Reading Level: 232
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $7.50
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Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Donelson F. Hoopes
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Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
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Publication Date: 1988-07
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Reading Level: 88
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $1.45
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Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alice A. Carter
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Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
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Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
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Publication Date: 2001-09-01
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Reading Level: 112
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Description: The Essentials Series.
During Thomas Eakins's lifetime, it was his controversial teaching methods and not his splendid paintings that drew the most attention. Today this extraordinary painter, gifted sculptor, and innovative photographer is hailed as a master of realism in the tradition of Velázquez. This lively portrait comes just in time for a retrospective exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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