Stories
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India
Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.
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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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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
Catalogue
- Books
Selling art in Georgian London : the rise of Arthur Pond / Louise Lippincott.
Lippincott, Louise, 1953-Date: 1983- Books
Book illustrators in eighteenth-century England / Hanns Hammelmann ; edited and completed by T.S.R. Boase.
Hammelmann, Hanns, 1912-1969.Date: 1975- Books
The rainbow's gravity : colour, materiality and British modernity / Kirsty Sinclair Dootson.
Dootson, Kirsty SinclairDate: 2023- Books
A biographical dictionary of British and Irish engravers, 1714-1820 / David Alexander.
Alexander, David (David S.)Date: 2021- Books
Hogarth: his life, art, and times / [Ronald Paulson].
Paulson, Ronald.Date: 1971