Month: December 2006
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Eakins’ The Gross Clinic – held for ransom?
Philadelphia, like many great cities, is intimately associated particular artists. Perhaps foremost among them is Thomas Eakins, undisputedly one of America’s greatest painters. (See my previous post on Eakins.) Eakin’s acknowledged masterpiece is a painting titled The Gross Clinic (Wikipedia article and image), it depicts one of the pioneering surgeons at the city’s venerable medical…
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Scott McCloud Making Comics Fifty State Tour
In spite of a personal schedule that I thought would prevent it, I managed to catch Scott McCloud’s lecture at Drexel University here in Philadelphia last night. McCloud, for those of you not familiar with him, is a popular comics creator and writer, who is best known as a writer about comics, not in the…