Why did Thomas Eakins, now considered the foremost American painter of the nineteenth century, make portraiture his main field in an era when other major artists disdained such a choice? With a rich discussion of the cultural and vocational context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Elizabeth Johns answers this question.
- ISBN10 0691040222
- ISBN13 9780691040226
- Publish Date 21 January 1984
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 308
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/1258.html