Title: Man Made
First published: 2000
Description: "Often censured during his lifetime for his insistence on studying and painting from the nude, Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is now acclaimed as one of America's greatest realist painters. Man Made examines Eakins's art and life, illustrating how the artist used his canvases to cope with the complex requirements of Victorian gender. Martin Berger reads a series of Eakins's paintings, ranging from early to late works, giving a nuanced and elegant examination of Eakins's portrayal of white, middle-class manhood.

This provocative cultural art history treats these paintings in terms of what they reveal about Eakins's own identity as well as the nation's changing ideals of manhood during the final years of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Masculinity in art, Criticism and interpretation, Art and society, Gender identity in art, History, Eakins, thomas, 1844-1916
Places: United States
People: Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: ND237.E15 B47 2000