Portrait - The Life of Thomas Eakins

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung "Provocative.... McFeely sensitively chronicles the maturation of this enigmatic Philadelphian."—Matthew Price, New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: William McFeely, William S. McFeely, William S. (University of Georgia) McFeely, McFeely William S.
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780393330687
• ISBN: 978-0-393-33068-7
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / American / General, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, United States of America, USA, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Paintings and painting