An Eakins masterpiece restored : seeing the Gross Clinic anew / edited by Kathleen A. Foster, Mark S. Tucker ; with essays by Steven Conn, Kathleen A. Foster, Mark S. Schreiner, MD, Mark S. Tucker.
Publisher:
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Copyright Date:
℗♭2012
Description:
xi, 170 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Introduction: studying the Gross Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker -- Local hero: the Gross Clinic and our sense of civic identity / Steven Conn -- Eakins as witness: the birth of modern surgery, 1844-89 / Mark S. Schreiner, M.D. -- A portrait of ambition: Eakins, the Gross Clinic, and the American centennial / Kathleen A. Foster -- The making of the Gross Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker -- The Gross Clinic in Philadelphia and New York, 1875-79 / Kathleen A. Foster -- The challenge revisited: the Gross Clinic and the Agnew Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster -- The changing painting: the Gross Clinic in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries / Mark S. Tucker -- Conclusion: "then and now" / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker.
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