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Author Werbel, Amy Beth.

Title Thomas Eakins : art, medicine, and sexuality in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Amy Werbel.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
©2007

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 Moore Stacks  N6537.E3 W47 2007    Available  ---
Description xii, 194 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 -- Psychology.
Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916.
Psychology.
Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 -- Sexual behavior.
Artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Attitudes.
Artists.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Attitudes.
Physicians.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780300116557 alkaline paper
0300116551 hardback