Thomas Eakins
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Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Amy Werbel
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Eakins’ modern critics have described his artistic motivations and beliefs as prurient and even pathological. Werbel challenges these interpretations and suggests instead that Eakins is best understood as an artist and teacher devoted to an exacting and profound study of the human body, to equality for women and men, and to middle-class meritocratic and Quaker philosophies.
“Werbel sets Eakins’s career and works . . . into the context of Philadelphia’s late-nineteenth-century scientific, medical, and artistic communities, examining the world in which Eakins produced his work and rationalizing some of his apparently provocative actions. . . . Because it is so rigorous in its challenge to much that is currently fashionable, I suspect it will be a controversial and much discussed book. It is a book that has needed to be written.”—Marc Simpson, Williams College
Publication Date: June 29, 2007
53 b/w + 16 color illus.