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Thomas Eakins : art, medicine, and sexuality in nineteenth-century Philadelphia by Werbel, Amy Beth

Table of 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.…”
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Contemporary art and classical myth

Table of Contents: “…Lichtenstein's Narcissus / Graham Bader -- Philomela as metaphor: sexuality, pornography, seduction / Giulia Lamoni -- Icarus returned: visual testimony and the falling man / Sharon Sliwinski -- Deep shit / Isabelle Loring Wallace -- Myth as method. …”