TEN years ago the notion that Chinese contemporary art could so much as raise a flicker of interest in foreign climes - never mind drive Western cultural pundits into a delirious frenzy - would have been dismissed a...TEN years ago the notion that Chinese contemporary art could so much as raise a flicker of interest in foreign climes - never mind drive Western cultural pundits into a delirious frenzy - would have been dismissed as pure fancy. At that time Chinese art was assumed to be nothing more than classical calligraphy,展开更多
1998年,美国雕塑家罗森布鲁姆(Richard Rosenblum)迎来了一生的高光时刻。那年,他的中国古代藏石在哈佛大学美术馆公开展出,震惊北美艺术界。同时,由哈佛大学专家Robert D. Mowry编著的展览图录《Worlds within Worlds》也大获成功,开...1998年,美国雕塑家罗森布鲁姆(Richard Rosenblum)迎来了一生的高光时刻。那年,他的中国古代藏石在哈佛大学美术馆公开展出,震惊北美艺术界。同时,由哈佛大学专家Robert D. Mowry编著的展览图录《Worlds within Worlds》也大获成功,开启了西方艺术学者对中国赏石的深入研究,尔后这批明星展品更在欧美各大著名博物馆开始了全球巡展。展开更多
In the history of medicine, relatively little attention has been paid to the way medical illustration circulated globally---or to the issues raised by the cultural ＂translation＂ of such images. My goal here is to fl...In the history of medicine, relatively little attention has been paid to the way medical illustration circulated globally---or to the issues raised by the cultural ＂translation＂ of such images. My goal here is to flesh out some of the history of this circulation and translation by exploring the aesthetic and medical connections be- tween two specific anatomical collections, both housed at the Gordon Pathology Museum at Guy＇s Hospital, London. The Joseph Towne collection of anatomical waxes and the Lam Qua paintings of the patients of medical missionary Peter Parker were both produced in the nineteenth century. Significantly, the two collections were part of related but culturally specific shifts in the way bodies （and diseased bodies） were viewed, represented, understood and treated. I explore some of the convergences and divergences between Western and Chinese medical and artistic priorities and will address some of the issues raised by them. These two collections are important, I argue, because they demonstrate how aesthetic considerations shape medical knowledge and wider attitudes about the human body.展开更多
文摘TEN years ago the notion that Chinese contemporary art could so much as raise a flicker of interest in foreign climes - never mind drive Western cultural pundits into a delirious frenzy - would have been dismissed as pure fancy. At that time Chinese art was assumed to be nothing more than classical calligraphy,
文摘1998年,美国雕塑家罗森布鲁姆(Richard Rosenblum)迎来了一生的高光时刻。那年,他的中国古代藏石在哈佛大学美术馆公开展出,震惊北美艺术界。同时,由哈佛大学专家Robert D. Mowry编著的展览图录《Worlds within Worlds》也大获成功,开启了西方艺术学者对中国赏石的深入研究,尔后这批明星展品更在欧美各大著名博物馆开始了全球巡展。
文摘In the history of medicine, relatively little attention has been paid to the way medical illustration circulated globally---or to the issues raised by the cultural ＂translation＂ of such images. My goal here is to flesh out some of the history of this circulation and translation by exploring the aesthetic and medical connections be- tween two specific anatomical collections, both housed at the Gordon Pathology Museum at Guy＇s Hospital, London. The Joseph Towne collection of anatomical waxes and the Lam Qua paintings of the patients of medical missionary Peter Parker were both produced in the nineteenth century. Significantly, the two collections were part of related but culturally specific shifts in the way bodies （and diseased bodies） were viewed, represented, understood and treated. I explore some of the convergences and divergences between Western and Chinese medical and artistic priorities and will address some of the issues raised by them. These two collections are important, I argue, because they demonstrate how aesthetic considerations shape medical knowledge and wider attitudes about the human body.
