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Dress and the magic of touch

Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.

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A medieval guide to practical magic

With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.

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Pum Dunbar’s living lessons

Read the ‘legends’ that give insight into Pum Dunbar’s creative process while producing her recent series of collages.

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A woman in her wilderness of things

Even though her home was overwhelmed with stuff, Georgie Evans’s grandma couldn’t stop buying things. In this series, Georgie delves into hoarding, and attempts to make sense of her grandma’s behaviour.

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  • Interior with an alchemist making a gesture of surprise, and a female assistant. Oil painting by Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • Interior with an alchemist making a gesture of surprise, and a female assistant. Oil painting by Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • A woman standing in a brown vortex, making a helpless gesture, with purple trees and cloud. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A woman standing in a brown vortex, making a helpless gesture, with purple trees and cloud. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Pier Leone Ghezzi as the "knight of caricature", carrying a stick and making a gesture with both hands. Etching by M. Tuscher, 1743.
  • A man leaves the house followed by his servant, a woman weeps and a girl in the background makes a gesture. Mezzotint by Wilson after C. Troost.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a large-chested nurse in a "hush" gesture, surrounded by red crosses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A white woman is being forced to work a treadmill as a black woman makes a derisory gesture and a white man with a whip watches over. Coloured aquatint.
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a skull in his lowered right hand. His left arm is raised with his hand held in a gesture of eloquence. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a skull in his lowered right hand. His left arm is raised with his hand held in a gesture of eloquence. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
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