Works-In-Progress Series, Event #1: "Against the Statue Anatomized"
Department: Humanities Center
Date and Time: November 19, 2014 | 3:00 PM-4:30 PMEvent Location: University Club, UC Irvine Campus
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| | The UCI Medical Humanities Initiative presents the Works-In-Progress Series. These quarterly presentations by UCI faculty will provide geniune opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to engage in conversations about health, healing, and well-being from multiple perspectives. In addition to supporting existing research and spurring new scholarly projects, the series seeks to build bridges between faculty in the arts, humanities, and medicine.
Lyle Massey, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies will present on the practice of 18th century medical illustration:
"Against the 'statue anatomized' - Vision, Practice and Pictures in Eighteenth Century Anatomy" will explore how and why the shift from the normative to the particular in medical illustrations from this era indicated a matching of the eye to a knife, hence illuminating the aspects of the relationship between picturing and vision in early modern medicine.