Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity
$35.00 USD • Used
New hardcover in dust jacket, with no marks or wear. Bright, handsome copy....
New hardcover in dust jacket, with no marks or wear. Bright, handsome copy.
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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 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.Product Info
ISBN: 0520255208
ISBN-13: 9780520255203
Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 2009
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
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