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Title: Thomas Eakins by Darrel Sewell, Thomas Eakins, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Musee D'Orsay, N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, Darrell Sewell ISBN: 0-300-09111-7 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: And research turns to wonder...
Comment: I'm a rower in high school on the west coast, and you don't really hear much about rowing over here, since it's mostly an east coast sport. So when my history teacher started going over Thomas Eakins and showed a clip about him from a documentary with some examples of his rowing paintings, my attention was immediately captures. I decided to do my term paper on him, but I expected it to be a long and tedious process, judging from the book I got from the library (which looked plain, boring, and old), so I put it off 'till the last minute. I just picked up the book an hour ago for the first time and just got online to see if they had any copies of it ..., since it proved to be well-written and interesting (so you don't space out so much in the middle of paragraphs like I tend to), and because it led me to think about things that are important parts of learning and art and life, but nobody ever talks about. This book proved to be insightful and fascinating, and after only one chapter, I'm hooked on the subject! And to think I was dreading reading it!
Rating: 5
Summary: A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO EAKINS THE ARTIST
Comment: Anecdotes abound in reference to Thomas Eakins American painter, watercolorist, draftsman, photographer, and sculptor. He is remembered for relaxing after painting by working calculus problems, and shocking friends with stories of his nude models.
A skilled portraitist he painted Walt Whitman. The poet said of his likeness, "I never knew of but one artist, and that's Tom Eakins, who could resist the temptation to see what they think ought to be rather than what is."
Whitman's opinion aside, Eakins (1844 - 1916) is recognized as one of the premier American artists to appear following the Civil War. He traveled to Paris for training, and later chose to apply Beaux-Arts techniques to distinctly American subjects. His fondness for athletics is found in his noted scenes of sailing, fishing, and boxing.
He is equally remembered for his then controversial paintings of surgeons at work, and remains a key figure in American art. This beautiful volume is apt affirmation of Eakins the artist.
- Gail Cooke
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Title: John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s by Richard Ormond, Elaine Kilmurray ISBN: 0300090676 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded-Age Manhood (Men and Masculinity) by Martin A. Berger ISBN: 0520222091 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 07 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation by Elizabeth Johns ISBN: 0520227255 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 04 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Thomas Eakins : The Absolute Male by John Esten ISBN: 0789306786 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: 05 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: H.C. Westermann by Michael Dennis/Rooks Adrian ISBN: 0810945649 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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