An Eakins masterpiece restored
Subtitle: seeing the Gross Clinic anew
By: edited by Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker ; with essays by Steven Conn, Kathleen A. Foster, Mark S. Schreiner, MD, Mark S. Tucker
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780876332351; 9780300179798
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Table of contents: title: Introduction: studying the Gross Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker; title: Local hero: the Gross Clinic and our sense of civic identity / Steven Conn; title: Eakins as witness: the birth of modern surgery, 1844-89 / Mark S. Schreiner, M.D.; title: A portrait of ambition: Eakins, the Gross Clinic, and the American centennial / Kathleen A. Foster; title: The making of the Gross Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker; title: The Gross Clinic in Philadelphia and New York, 1875-79 / Kathleen A. Foster; title: The challenge revisited: the Gross Clinic and the Agnew Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster; title: The changing painting: the Gross Clinic in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries / Mark S. Tucker; title: Conclusion: "then and now" / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker.