Thomas Eakins
The Heroism of Modern Life| By: | Elizabeth Johns |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780691002880 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781400820252 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 1984 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Why did Thomas Eakins, now considered the foremost American painter of the nineteenth century, make portraiture his main field in an era when other major artists disdained such a choice? With a rich discussion of the cultural and vocational context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Elizabeth Johns answers this question.