Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity
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- Synopsis
- The Author demonstrates that Eakins's realistic portrayals of Spanish street performers, African Americans, and southern European immigrants embodied a modern 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.
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 306 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520255203
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Date of Addition:
- 02/27/20
- Copyrighted By:
- The Regents of the University of California
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.