Realism, Writing, Disfiguration
Subtitle: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 15, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226262116
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Art; USA; History - General; Art / History / General; 1844-1916; 1871-1900; Crane, Stephen,; Eakins, Thomas,; Gross Clinic; Realism in art; Realism in literature
First sentence: When Thomas Eakins in March or early April 1875 began work on The Gross Clinic he was thirty years old and had reached a stage in his early career when for the first time he was prepared to attempt a painting of major artistic and intellectual scope (Fig. I, Pl. I).