Medicine in Art

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-10-12
Publisher(s): J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
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Summary

This sumptuously illustrated volume offers a visual history of the depiction of illness and healing in Western culture. It ranges from Egyptian wall carvings to medieval manuscripts and from paintings and sculpture by the great masters of the Renaissance to 20thC artists such as Matisse and Magritte. Thematic chapters cover the examination of patients and their maladies; healing and medical treatments; and the sufferings and hopes of patients awaiting cure and recovery. Psychological anguish, represented by Masaccio's The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, and Munch's The Scream, are also treated along with more obvious physical manifestations.

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