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Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity
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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 daymass immigration, orientalism, tourism, commercial publishing, and the international circulation of ethnographic objectsthis book illuminates American art on the threshold of the twentieth-century "culture concept" promulgated by Franz Boas and other modern anthropologists.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520255203 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 17 Apr 2009 |
DEWEY: | 759.13 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 291 |
Weight: | 916g |
Height: | 254mm |
Width: | 178mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |