Stories
- Article
How homesickness inspires art
Gail Tolley looks at homesickness through the eyes of three contemporary artists and finds powerful new themes of identity and connection.
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Performance art, frozen in time
For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.
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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
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The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman
How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"A Sculptor in the Arctic Regions" by Albert Operti, cut from Shield's Magazine of Art
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7485/25Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Books
In sickness and in health : medicine and health care in 19th century French prints a salute to the New Jersey pharmaceutical industry The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 10-August 19, 1984 / by Patricia Eckert Boyer.
Boyer, Patricia Eckert.Date: [1984], ©1984- Pictures
An itinerant quack-doctor. Oil painting by an English painter, mid-19th century.
Reference: 45035i- Archives and manuscripts
Notes by Dalton
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7848/9-10Part of: Dalton, John (1766-1844), chemist, originator of modern atomic theory of matter- Archives and manuscripts
Chapter 14 The Art and Gifts of an Orator
Date: Late 19th - early 20th CenturyReference: GC/228/15Part of: Miller, Florence Fenwick (1854-1935): autobiography 'An Uncommon Girlhood'