Refashioning Masculine Identity: Jo-Anne Berelowitz interviews Martin Berger about his book, Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood.

Jan. 2, 2003

[1] BERELOWITZ: You make the argument that Eakins’s paintings are an attempt to negotiate – indeed, to refashion – Gilded Age conceptions of masculinity. Could you set out for us what was the dominant understanding of masculinity when Eakins was embarking on his career in the 1870s and what shift...