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by Henry Adams

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Adams explores the dark side of Thomas Eakins, one of the great American painters, whose uncompromising realism helped move American art from the Victorian era into the modern age.

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Thomas Eakins is widely considered one of the great American painters, an artist whose uncompromising realism helped move American art from the Victorian era into the modern age. He is also acclaimed as a paragon of integrity, one who stood up for his artistic beliefs even when they brought him personal and professional difficulty--as when he was fired from the Pennsylvania Academy of Art for removing a model's loincloth in a drawing class.
Yet beneath the surface of Eakins's pictures is a sense of brooding unease and latent violence--a discomfort voiced by one of his sitters who said his portrait "decapitated" her. In Eakins Revealed, art historian Henry Adams examines the dark side of Eakins's life and work, in a startling new biography that will change our understanding of this American icon. Based on close study of Eakins's work and new research in the Bregler papers, a major collection never fully mined by scholars, this volume shows Eakins was not merely uncompromising, but harsh and brutal both in his personal life and in his painting. Adams uncovers the bitter personal feuds and family tragedies surrounding Eakins--his mother died insane and his niece committed suicide amid allegations that Eakins had seduced her--and documents the artist's tendency toward psychological abuse and sexual harassment of those around him.
This provocative book not only unveils new facts about Eakins's life; more important, it makes sense, for the first time, of the enigmas of his work. Eakins Revealed promises to be a controversial biography that will attract readers inside and outside the art world, and fascinate anyone concerned with the mystery of artistic genius.

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  • Title Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist
  • Author Henry Adams
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 583
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-05-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195156683 / 0195156684
  • Weight 2.75 lbs (1.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.3 x 10.2 x 1.6 in (18.54 x 25.91 x 4.06 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Eakins, Thomas, Artists - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004023284
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2005, Page 1335
  • Ingram Advance, 03/01/2005, Page 39
  • New York Review of Books, 04/29/2007, Page 27
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/28/2005, Page 54

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Henry Adams is Chair of the Department of Art History at Case Western Reserve University. An award-winning art historian, he is the author of more than 200 publications on American art, including books, exhibition catalogues, and scholarly and popular articles. He collaborated with Ken Burns on a PBS documentary about the painter Thomas Hart Benton.

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