Gordon Hendricks

Gordon Hendricks (* 1917, † 1980) was an American art and film historian.

In 1961 Hendricks the book The Edison motion picture myth in which he demonstrated that the Thomas Alva Edison attributed the invention of initial devices for theatrical release actually happened by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson. In 1975, he wrote about Eadweard Muybridge, in which he saw the father of cinema. This book was reissued in 2001.

In addition to these works on the history of film Hendricks has also published books on the history of art. So he wrote about Winslow Homer and Albert Bierstadt. Another of his themes was the famous Muybridge with Thomas Eakins. So it was Hendricks who was the first the question of Eakins' presented homosexuality in his book on Eakins 1974.

After his death, Hendricks the Archives of American Art left behind two important collections: the one about Thomas Eakins, the other on the history of film.

Works

  • The Edison motion picture myth, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1961
  • Eadweard Muybridge: the father of the motion picture, Grossman Publishers, New York, 1975, ISBN 0-670-28679-6
  • Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West, HN Abrams, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-8109 - 0151- X
  • The life and work of Winslow Homer, HN Abrams, New York, 1979, ISBN 0-8109-1063-2
  • The photographs of Thomas Eakins, Grossman Publishers, New York, 1972, ISBN 0-670-55261-5
  • The life and work of Thomas Eakins, Grossman Publishers, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-670-42795-0
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