The Medicine of Art Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America【電子書籍】[ Elizabeth L. Lee ]

＜p＞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 midcareer “there is something else in life besides the four walls of an ill-ventilated studio.” ＜em＞The Medicine of Art＜/em＞ puts such moments center stage in order to consider the role of health and illness in the way art was produced and consumed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Not merely beautiful or entertaining objects, works by Gilded-Age artists such as John Singer Sargent, Abbott Thayer, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens are shown to 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．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る