Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane

by Michael Fried

A highly original and gripping account of the works of Eakins and Crane. That remarkable combination of close reading and close viewing which Fried uniquely commands is brought to bear on the problematic nature of the making of images, of texts, and of the self in nineteenth-century America.--Svetlana Alpers, University of California, Berkeley

An extraordinary achievement of scholarship and critical analysis. It is a book distinguished not only for its brilliance but for its courage, its grace and wit, its readiness to test its arguments in tough-minded ways, and its capacity to meet the challenge superbly. . . . This is a landmark in American cultural and intellectual studies.--Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University

• ISBN10: 0226262103
• ISBN13: 9780226262109
• Publish Date: 1 January 1987
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 16 August 2010
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: University of Chicago Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 240
• Language: English