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It's good to know a little about an artist to understand his or her art. But maybe not always.

Henry Adams' Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist accuses the painter of incest, bestiality, flagrant exhibitionism, sadism, molestation and sexual opportunism, contributing to the suicide of his disturbed niece. The portrait presented by Adams, a Case Western Reserve University professor of art history, is of a severely troubled individual with a catalog of psychoses, including a castration complex, sexual inadequacy and trauma, and a propensity to drink more milk than perhaps is healthy.