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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens

The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.

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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions

Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?

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Native Americans and the dehumanising force of the photograph

In the second part of Native Americans through the 19th-century lens, we delve deeper into the ambivalent messages within the images.

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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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  • Two wealthy Chinese opium smokers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 19th century.
  • Two poor Chinese opium smokers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 19th century.
  • An alchemist reading in a romanticised laboratory setting. Watercolour painting, 19th century.
  • The flaying of Saint Bartholomew. Oil painting attributed to a Portuguese painter, 19th century.
  • A physician examining a urine flask brought by a young woman. Oil painting, 19th century, after Hendrik Heerschop.
  • A physician examining a urine flask brought by a young woman. Oil painting, 19th century, after Hendrik Heerschop.
  • Tobias restoring the eyesight of Tobit in the presence of Raphael and Anna. Gouache painting by a Spanish painter, 19th (?) century.
  • A woman in bed, a second woman kneeling beside her in prayer to the Virgin and Child. Oil painting by an Italian painter, 19th century.
  • Maria Diaz sick in bed, a priest attending her and her mother praying to Christ on the cross. Oil painting by a Portuguese (?) painter, 19th century.
  • An itinerant quack-doctor. Oil painting by an English painter, mid-19th century.
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