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Editorial
Art and illness
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 275
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Subjects
subjects:
Disease / Neuroscience / Science / Art history / Medicine
Book Review
Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form. By Allison Morehead
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 94-95
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Belinda (Thomson, Belinda)
Subjects
art literature:
Germain, Alphonse / Zola, Emile / Poe, Edgar Allan
artists:
Denis, Maurice / Vuillard, Edouard / Strindberg, August / Munch, Edvard / Bonnard, Pierre
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1949 / 1890-1899 / 1890-1899 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings / Drawings
places:
Europe
subjects:
French painting / Norwegian / Swedish painting / Symbolist movement / Art theory / Science / Psychology / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Children's art / Outsider art / Writings / Literature / Translations / Nudes / Landscapes (visual works) / Dreams / Disease
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Study for Décor, by Maurice Denis. c.1890–91. Charcoal and pastel on paper, 31.2 by 24.7 cm. (Private collection).
Book Review
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages. By Jack Hartnell
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 976-977
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Bhalla, Niamh (Bhalla, Niamh)
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dates:
0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599
media:
Manuscripts / Drawings / Book illustrations / Art objects
places:
Europe
subjects:
Visual culture / Medicine / Philosophy / Theology / Art theory / Disease / Science / Relics / Treatises
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
2. Surgical instruments in use in an operation for an anal fistula. English, c.1475–1500. Pen and ink and tempera on vellum, 25.4 by 17.8 cm. (Glasgow University Library, MS Hunter 251 fol.43v; Bridgeman Images.)
Book Review
The End Again: Degeneration and Visual Culture in Modern Spain. By Oscar E. Vázquez
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 804-805
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Reviewer:
Brauer, Fae (Brauer, Fae)
Subjects
art literature:
Darwin, Charles / Baudelaire, Charles / Engels, Friedrich
artists:
Fortuny y Carbó, Mariano José María Bernardo, 1838-1874 / Mani, Carles / Cabello Izarra, Segundo / Santa María Sedano, Marceliano / Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín / Rusiñol, Santiago / Regoyos, Dario de / Garnelo y Alda, José / García Sampedro, Luis / Picasso, Pablo / Gargallo, Pablo / Nonell, Isidre
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1949
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Gouaches / Photographs
places:
Spain
subjects:
Spanish painting / Spanish sculpture / Nationalism / Disease / Death / History paintings / Gender / Psychology / Race / Capitalism / Catholicism / Cultural history / Ethnology / Occult sciences / Science / Politics / Visual culture / Historiography / Criticism / Critical Reception / Modernism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Degenerates, by Carles Mani. 1891–1904. Plaster, 20.5 by 37 by 22 cm. (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona).
Exhibition Review
Art AIDS America. Tacoma, Kennesaw, New York and Chicago
12/2016 | 1365 | 158
Pages: 1007-1009
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Reviewer:
Boaden, James (Boaden, James)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, United States / Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, United States / Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, United States / Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, United States
places:
United States / Tacoma / New York / Kennesaw / Chicago
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Politics / Medicine / Disease
Illustrations
Attributed works:
78. Untitled (self-portrait), by Mark Morrisroe. 1989 (Fotomuseum Winterthur; exh. Alphawood Gallery, Chicago)
Attributed works:
79. 24, by Kia Labeija. 2014 (Tacoma Art Museum and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; exh. Alphawood Gallery, Chicago)
Attributed works:
80. Icarian I Incline, by Daniel Goldstein. 1993 (Collection of Richard Gere; exh. Alphawood Gallery, Chicago)
Article
Ancient Glass in England-Note I. An English 15th Century Roundel
06/1917 | 171 | 30
Pages: 214-215+217-218
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Author:
Turpin, Pierre (Turpin, Pierre)
Subjects
artists:
Thornton, John
dates:
1400-1499
places:
England / Coventry
subjects:
Glassware / Medieval / Heraldry
subjects:
Iconography / Disease / Allegory
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Belonging to Hon. H. D. Mclaren, M. P. Ancient Glass in England-Note I. An English 15th Century Roundel
Article
Art and Medicine (Continuation)
02/1916 | 155 | 28
Pages: 192+194-197+199
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Author:
Sprigge, Samuel Squire (Sprigge, Samuel Squire; S., S. S.; Sprigge, S. Squire; Sprigge, S. S.)
Subjects
subjects:
Medicine / Iconography / Paintings
subjects:
Disease / Anatomical drawings
subjects:
Hospitals / Treatises / Illustrations
subjects:
Human figure / Sculpture / Greek (ancient) / Greek canon / Paintings
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Figure 6.-Dr. Syntax Setting out for the Lakes; By Thomas Rowlandson
Attributed works:
Plate I. (A) Les Philistins Frappés de la Peste; Nicolas Poussin; Oil on Canvas, 1.45×1.92 m. (The Louvre). Art and Medicine
Attributed works:
Plate I. (B) "The Pool of Bethesda"; By William Hogarth, 1736?); 4.17×6.17 m.; Stair-Decoration for S. Bartholomew's Hospital. Art and Medicine
Attributed works:
Plate II. (C) "The Battle of the Centaurs and the Lapithæ" (Metamorphoses XII); By Piero di Cosimo; Tempera on Panel, .7×2.57 m. (Mr. C. H. Shannon, A. R. A., and Mr. Charles Ricketts). Art and Medicine
Western art unattributed:
Figure 1.-Roman Terra-Cotta Representing a Pregnant Woman, Excavated at Brandon, Suffolk.
Western art unattributed:
Figure 2.-Greek Terra-Cotta Votive Offering, Showing Discoid Form of Psoriasis (?)
Western art unattributed:
Figure 3.-Portuguese Wax Votive Offering Showing Smallpox Pustules; 20th Cent.
Western art unattributed:
Figure 4.-Greek Votive Offering; Abubonic Tumor or "Emerod"
Western art unattributed:
Figure 5.-Detail, Reduced, from a Print, "Richard Dickinson of Scarborough Spaw" (Mr. Meredith Whittaker's Collection)