Eakins
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Eakins Details
A biography of the American painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) linking his work to the major currents of 19th-century life and thought to offer a comprehensive view of the artist's "spiritual landscape." Text by Sylvan Schendler. xix + 300 pages; 158 b&w plates; 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Read more
Reviews
A scathing description of Eakins home city, moralizing, priggish and narrow. The constraints to his career are systemic. Not a flamboyant type as some of the French Impressionists; he as well shared some of the constraints. The letter from a moralizing gilded age mother that sank his teaching career is particularly depressing in its manipulative moralizing.As a painter, I understand him better in view of the 'backwater' big city. But his breadth as a painter and the large number of illustrations helps with appreciating and understanding Eakins.