Medical Muses

2012-01-01 History

Author : Asti Hustvedt
Release : 2012-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 350/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Medical Muses written by Asti Hustvedt. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862 the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris became the epicenter of the study of hysteria, the mysterious illness then thought to affect half of all women. There, prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot's contentious methods caused furore within the church and divided the medical community. Treatments included hypnosis, piercing and the evocation of demons and, despite the controversy they caused, the experiments became a fascinating and fashionable public spectacle. Medical Muses tells the stories of the women institutionalised in the Salpêtrière. Theirs is a tale of science and ideology, medicine and the occult, of hypnotism, sadism, love and theatre. Combining hospital records, municipal archives, memoirs and letters, Medical Muses sheds new light on a crucial moment in psychiatric history.

Ancient Muses

2003-05-06 Art

Author : John H. Jameson (Jr.)
Release : 2003-05-06
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 749/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Ancient Muses written by John H. Jameson (Jr.). This book was released on 2003-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known widely in Europe as "interpretive narrative archaeology", the practice of using creative methods to interpret and present current knowledge of the past is gaining popularity in North America. This is a compilation of international case studies of the various artistic methods used in this new form of education. Plays, opera, visual art, stories, poetry, performance dance, music, sculpture, digital imagery - all can effectively communicate archaeological processes and cultural values to public audiences. The 23 contributors to this volume are a diverse group of archaeologists, educators and artisans who have direct experience in schools, museums and at archaeological sites. Citing specific examples, such as the film, "The English Patient", science fiction mysteries and hypertext environments, they explain how creative imagination and the power of visual and audio media can personalize, contextualize and demystify the research process

Shaggy Muses

2009-02-04 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Maureen Adams
Release : 2009-02-04
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 807/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Shaggy Muses written by Maureen Adams. This book was released on 2009-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You’ll call this sentimental–perhaps–but then a dog somehow represents the private side of life, the play side,” Virginia Woolf confessed to a friend. And it is this private, playful side, the richness and power of the bond between five great women writers and their dogs, that Maureen Adams celebrates in this deeply engaging book. In Shaggy Muses, we visit Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Flush, the golden Cocker Spaniel who danced the poet away from death, back to life and human love. We roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Emily Brontë, whose fierce Mastiff mix, Keeper, provided a safe and loving outlet for the writer’s equally fierce spirit. We enter the creative sanctum of Emily Dickinson, which she shared only with Carlo, the gentle, giant Newfoundland who soothed her emotional terrors. We mingle with Edith Wharton, whose ever-faithful Pekes warmed her lonely heart during her restless travels among Europe and America’ s social and intellectual elite. We are privileged guests in the fragile universe of Virginia Woolf, who depended for emotional support and sanity not only on her human loved ones but also on her dogs, especially Pinka–a gift from her lover, Vita Sackville-West–a black Cocker Spaniel who became a strong, bright thread in the fabric of Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s life together. Based on diaries, letters, and other contemporary accounts–and featuring many illustrations of the writers and their dogs– these five miniature biographies allow us unparalleled intimacy with women of genius in their hours of domestic ease and inner vulnerability. Shaggy Muses also enchants us with a pack of new friends: Flush, Keeper, Carlo, Foxy, Linky, Grizzle, Pinka, and all the other devoted canines who loved and served these great writers.

Muses

2020-07-07 Art

Author : Conrad Roset
Release : 2020-07-07
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 804/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Muses written by Conrad Roset. This book was released on 2020-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since drawing his first muse as a student of Fine Arts until today, Conrad Roset (Terrassa, 1984) has been tracing his style about women0;s bodies with this desire to fix a own style, a unique and non-transferable aesthetic, which has already located as a world reference illustrator. Technique, game, trial and error, the beauty of the female body, the merge in this book that brings together the work of an artist who has fascinated people from all over the world.

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