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Thomas Eakins : art, medicine, and sexuality in nineteenth-century Philadelphia
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- Creator
- Amy Werbel
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xii, 194 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300230956, 9780300116557, 0300116551, 0300230958
- OCLC
- ocm71812838, on1042083117
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Eakins : a century of Philadelphia scientists, artists, and provocateurs -- The Agnew Clinic, the Gross Clinic, the Crucifixion, and Swimming : dissecting Eakins' paintings -- Body casts and "anatomical eyes" : Thomas Eakins, William Williams Keen, and the curriculum at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts -- Art, pornography, freak shows, medical pictures, and the guilty pleasures of photography in nineteenth-century Philadelphia -- Scandalous exposures : the trials of Thomas Eakins, William Smith Forbes, and Oscar Wilde -- Conclusion : Thomas Eakins' family values
Subjects
- Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 -- Psychology.
- Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 -- Sexual behavior.
- Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916.
- Artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Attitudes.
- Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Attitudes.
- Anatomy, Artistic -- Pennsylvania -- biography.
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- Anatomy, Artistic -- history -- Pennsylvania.
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- History, 19th Century -- Pennsylvania.
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- Medicine in the Arts -- Pennsylvania.
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- Morals -- Pennsylvania.
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- Sexuality -- history -- Pennsylvania.
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- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- History -- 19th century.