Thomas Eakins And The Cultures of Modernity

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-520-25520-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 262 mm, Gewicht: 974 g

Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity is the first book to situate Philadelphia's greatest realist painter in relation to the historical discourse of cultural difference. Alan C. Braddock reveals that modern anthropological perceptions of "culture," attributed to Eakins by many art historians, did not become current until after the artist's death, in 1916. Braddock demonstrates that Eakins's realistic portrayals of Spanish street performers, African Americans, and southern European immigrants embodied a premodern worldview. Yet by exploring Eakins's struggle to visualize diversity amid the dislocating forces of his day—mass immigration, orientalism, tourism, commercial publishing, and the international circulation of ethnographic objects—this book illuminates American art on the threshold of the twentieth-century "culture concept" promulgated by Franz Boas and other modern anthropologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braddock, Alan C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: “This Current Confusion”: Thomas Eakins before Cultures

1 “Amongst Strangers”: Studies in Character Abroad

2 “What Kind of People Are There”: Local Color, Cosmopolitanism, and the Limits of Realism

3 “To Learn Their Ways That I Might Paint Some”: Cowboys, Indians, and Evolutionary Aesthetics

Coda: “Distinctly American Art”: Thomas Eakins, National Genius

Notes

Selected Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alan C. Braddock is Assistant Professor of Art History, Temple University.