Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane

by Michael Fried

Book Overview

"A highly original and gripping account of the works of Eakins and Crane. That remarkable combination of close reading and close viewing which Fried uniquely commands is brought to bear on the problematic nature of the making of images, of texts, and of the self in nineteenth-century America."--Svetlana Alpers, University of California, Berkeley

"An extraordinary achievement of scholarship and critical analysis. It is a book distinguished not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226262111
• ISBN13: 9780226262116
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.5"