基本説明
This is the frist book to situate Philadelphia's greatest realist painter in relation to the historical discourse of cultural difference.
Full Description
"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' realistic portrayals of Spanish street performers, African Americans, and southern European immigrants embodied a premodern worldview. Yet by exploring Eakins' 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.
Contents
Acknowledgments Introductionbefore 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
