5 results
- Interview
- Interview
Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies
| Gwendolyn SmithThomas S G Farnetti
Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.
- Article
- Article
Pain, politics and the power of photography
| Giulia Smith
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
- Article
- Article
The amateur silversmith
| Geraldine Holden
It started as hobby and soon became a passion. Geraldine Holden tells us where the art and science of silver unite.
- Article
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
| Natasha Ruiz-GómezKathleen Arundell
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
- Article
- Article
Diagnosing OCD in the past
| Joanne EdgeThomas S G Farnetti
Mining the writings of and about famous historical figures, retrospective psychologists try to diagnose their mental health problems. But, inevitably, partial evidence is open to misinterpretation.