Thomas Eakins and the cultures of modernity

Introduction: "This current confusion" : Thomas Eakins before cultures

"Amongst strangers" : studies in character abroad

"What kind of people are there" : local color, cosmopolitanism, and the limits of civic realism

"To learn their ways that I might paint some" : cowboys, Indians, and evolutionary aesthetics

Coda: "Distinctly American art" : Thomas Eakins, national genius

Notes

Selected bibliography

List of illustrations

Index.