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Thomas Eakins was misunderstood in life, his brilliant work earned little acclaim, and hidden demons tortured and drove him. Yet the portraits he painted more than a century ago captivate us today, and he is now widely acclaimed as the finest portrait painter our nation has ever produced. This book recounts the artist's life in fascinating detail, drawing on a treasure trove of Eakins family correspondence and papers that have only recently been discovered. Never before has Thomas Eakins's story been told with such drama, clarity, and accuracy. Sidney Kirkpatrick sets the painter's life and art in the wider context of the changing world he devoted himself to portraying, and he also addresses the artist's private life-the contradictory impulses, obsessions, and possible psychological illness that fired his work. Kirkpatrick underscores Eakins's unflinching integrity as an artist and discloses how his profound appreciation of the beauty of the human form was both the source of his greatness and ultimately of his undoing. Nevertheless, the author observes, Eakins has had his "revenge," inspiring a new generation of realist painters and gaining the recognition that eluded him in life.

Painters --- Eakins, Thomas, --- Eakins, Thomas, -- 1844-1916.. --- Painters -- United States -- Biography.

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Pendant l’année 2011, Mark Rothko (1903- 1970) devint le héros de Red, une pièce de théâtre à succès sur Broadway qui gagna six Tony Awards, tandis que, dans les maisons de ventes aux enchères, la cote de ses tableaux n’en finissait pas de monter, dépassant celle de ses collègues américains de la même période – Pollock, de Kooning, Newman, Still. Quant aux expositions de ses oeuvres, elles circulent dans les musées du monde entier, attirant un public de plus en plus enthousiaste. Né Marcus Rotkovitch à Dvinsk, dans l’Empire russe, il émigre à l’âge de dix ans aux États-Unis, emportant avec lui son éducation talmudique comme ses souvenirs des pogroms et des persécutions de son enfance. Il a tout juste trente ans lorsqu’on lui offre sa première exposition individuelle et, dès les années 1950, il est célébré au MoMA, à l’Art Institute de Chicago, ainsi que dans les plus grands musées européens. Alors que le judaïsme n’a produit que très peu d’artistes plasticiens jusqu’au xxe siècle, l’héritage laissé par Rothko éclate sans conteste aujourd’hui. Son oeuvre la plus aboutie est sans aucun doute la chapelle Rothko, un lieu de méditation oecuménique à Houston, Texas. Dans ce livre, Annie Cohen-Solal dévoile la trajectoire de cet artiste majeur qui fut également un érudit, un intellectuel, un éducateur et, bien sûr, un passeur, dont la dimension spirituelle reste ancrée dans la complexité et la richesse de sa propre généalogie.

Painters --- Rothko, Mark, --- Rothko, Mark --- Painting, American --- Painting, Abstract --- Painters - United States - Biography --- Rothko, Mark, - 1903-1970

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Effie Marquess Carmack (1885-1974) grew up in the tobacco-growing region of southern Kentucky known as the Black Patch. As an adult she moved to Utah, back to Kentucky, to Arizona, and finally to California. Economic necessity primarily motivated Effie and her husband's moves, but her conversion to the Mormon Church in youth also was a factor. Throughout her life, she was committed to preserving the rural, southern folkways she had experienced as a child. She and other members of her family were folk musicians, at times professionally, and she also became a folk poet and artist

Authors, American -- Biography. --- Carmack, Effie Marquess, 1885-1974. --- Farm life -- Kentucky. --- Folk singers -- United States -- Biography. --- Kentucky -- Biography. --- Kentucky -- Social life and customs. --- Mormons -- Kentucky -- Biography. --- Painters -- United States -- Biography. --- Farm life --- Mormons --- Folk singers --- Painters --- Authors, American --- Biography - General --- History & Archaeology --- American authors --- Latter-Day Saints --- Rural life --- Mormon Church --- Country life --- Christians --- -Carmack, Effie Marquess, 1885-1974. --- Kentucky --- Social life and customs. --- -Artists --- Latter Day Saints --- Brighamite Mormons --- Church of Christ (Temple Lot) members --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members --- Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) members --- Hedrikites --- Josephite Mormons --- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members --- Reorganized Mormons --- RLDS Mormons --- Strangite Mormons --- Temple Lot Mormons --- Utah Mormons --- -Brighamite Mormons --- Artists