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  1. The medicine of art
    disease and the aesthetic object in gilded age America
    Author: Lee, Elizabeth L.
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London

    In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, "Health—is the thing!" Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized mid-career "there is... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, "Health—is the thing!" Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized mid-career "there is something else in life besides the four walls of an ill-ventilated studio." Health and Illness in American Gilded-Age Art puts such moments center stage to consider the role of health and illness in the way art was produced and consumed. It is the first study to address the place of organic disease—cancer, tuberculosis, syphilis—in the life and work of Gilded-Age artists. It demonstrates how well-known works of art were marked by disease, arguing that art itself functioned in medicinal terms for artists and viewers in the late nineteenth century. Not merely beautiful or entertaining objects, works of art could function as balm for the ill, providing relief from physical suffering and pain. Art did so by blunting the edges of contagious disease through a process of visual translation. In painting, for instance, hacking coughs, bloody sputum and bodily enervation were recast as signs of spiritual elevation and refinement for the tuberculous, who were shown with a pale, chalky pallor that signalled rarefied beauty rather than an alarming indication of death. Works of art thus redirected the experience of illness in an era prior to the life-saving discoveries that would soon become hallmarks of modern medical science to offer an alternate therapy.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501346903; 9781501346897
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    Subjects: Krankheit <Motiv>; Bildnis; Kunst; Medizin <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Medicine and art / United States / History / 19th century; Diseases in art; Art / Psychological aspects; Artists / Health and hygiene; Art therapy; Art / Psychological aspects; Art therapy; Artists / Health and hygiene; Diseases in art; Medicine and art; United States; 1800-1899; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 226 Seiten, 7 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln), Illustrationen
  2. The medicine of art
    disease and the aesthetic object in gilded age America
    Author: Lee, Elizabeth L.
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London

    In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, "Health—is the thing!" Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized mid-career "there is... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, "Health—is the thing!" Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized mid-career "there is something else in life besides the four walls of an ill-ventilated studio." Health and Illness in American Gilded-Age Art puts such moments center stage to consider the role of health and illness in the way art was produced and consumed. It is the first study to address the place of organic disease—cancer, tuberculosis, syphilis—in the life and work of Gilded-Age artists. It demonstrates how well-known works of art were marked by disease, arguing that art itself functioned in medicinal terms for artists and viewers in the late nineteenth century. Not merely beautiful or entertaining objects, works of art could function as balm for the ill, providing relief from physical suffering and pain. Art did so by blunting the edges of contagious disease through a process of visual translation. In painting, for instance, hacking coughs, bloody sputum and bodily enervation were recast as signs of spiritual elevation and refinement for the tuberculous, who were shown with a pale, chalky pallor that signalled rarefied beauty rather than an alarming indication of death. Works of art thus redirected the experience of illness in an era prior to the life-saving discoveries that would soon become hallmarks of modern medical science to offer an alternate therapy.

     
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  3. The medicine of art
    disease and the aesthetic object in gilded age America
    Author: Lee, Elizabeth L.
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501346897
    Subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 226 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln), Illustrationen
  4. The medicine of art
    disease and the aesthetic object in gilded age America
    Author: Lee, Elizabeth L.
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London

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    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Digitale Bibliothek
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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501346897
    Subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 226 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln), Illustrationen