Visual culture and pandemic disease since 1750 : capturing contagion / edited by Marsha Morton and Ann-Marie Akehurst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morton, Marsha, editor.

Akehurst, Ann-Marie, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Science and the arts since 1750

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sick in art.

Pandemics--In art.

Pandemics.

Art and society--Case studies.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 254 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Marsha Morton is Professor of Art History at Pratt Institute. She has published numerous essays and three books on interdisciplinary topics dealing with art, science, anthropology, and music in nineteenth-century German and Austrian cultural history. Ann-Marie Akehurst, PhD,is an independent scholar and a Trustee of the Society of Architectural Historians (GB). She speaks internationally and has published widely on sacred space, urban identity, and the art and architecture of spaces of sickness and wellbeing in early modern Britain and Europe.

Contents:

The Inception of 'Science and Supplication': Architectural Programs, Devotional Paintings, and Votive Processions in Early Modern Venice / Andrew Hopkins

Invisible Destroyers: Cholera and COVID in British Visual Culture / Amanda Sciampacone

Deconstructing the Story of a Contagion: Tuberculosis and Its Representations in Early Republican Turkey / Alev Berberoglu and Cansu Degirmencioglu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Visual culture and pandemic disease since 1750

ISBN:

9781003294979

1003294979

9781000904147

1000904148

9781000904123

1000904121

Publisher Number:

40031852279

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.