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Seminar: Looking and Healing

16 May 2012-16 May 2012, 18:00-18:00, K6.33, King's, Strand Campus

Event series: CHH seminar series
School / area: Arts & Humanities
Department: Centre for the Humanities and Health
Location: Strand Campus
Speaker: Dr Martha Fleming

Artists and doctors share highly developed observational skills and a fundamental love for humankind. This lecture explores some historically revealing relationships between these different practitioners, and the intellectual, social and professional complexes in which these relationships sit. Representational, technological and ethical epistemologies can be traced in the performed intimacies of such self-reflexive clinical arenas. Examples from both physiological and psychiatric medicine are explored, in pairings from Goya and Arrieta through Munch and Jakobsen as well as Duchamp and Dumouchel and beyond. Painting, engraving, photography and sculpture from approximately 1750 to 1990 are addressed.

Contact name: Julia Howse
Email: julia.howse@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7848 1405

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