Stories
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The art of scientific glassblowing
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.
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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
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Synaesthesia, or when senses overlap
What’s it like to see heartbeats, taste Tube stations or hear paintings?
Catalogue
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Designs for metalworkers. Woodcuts by Issai, 1863-1864.
Issai (Artist pupil of Hokusai), fl. 185-Date: [1863-1864]Reference: 729549i- Books
Pirotechnia / del Signor Vannvccio Biringvccio Senese, nella quale si tratta non solo della diuersità delle minere ma anco di quanto si ricerca alla pratica di esse, e che s'appartiene al l'arte della fusione, ò getto de metalli. Far campane, artigliarie, fuochi artificiati, & altre diuerse cose vtilissime.
Biringucci, Vannoccio, 1480-1539?Date: [1678]- Books
Die altgermanische Thierornamentik ; typologische Studie über germanische Metallgegenstände aus dem IV. bis IX. Jahrhundert, nebst einer Studie über irische Ornamentik / von Bernhard Salin; aus dem schwedischen Manuskript übersetzt von J. Mestorf.
Salin, Bernhard, 1861-1931.Date: 1904- Books
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The artist's arcanum; or, the essence of a variety of useful and entertaining arts, carefully and perspicuously laid down, the greater part from actual experiments, by F. T. Burton.
Burton, F. T.Date: M,DCC,XCIX. [1799]- Books
A treatise on the progressive improvement and present state of the manufactures in metal / [Anon].
Holland, John, 1794-1872.Date: 1831-1834