Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
Galleries 315, 316, and 317, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
This exhibition explores our ongoing curiosity of the human body through historic and contemporary works of art that expose the diverse ways that people have attempted to understand the human body in its many physiological, psychological, and symbolic dimensions.
Exhibition images
Works of art
late 1500s–early 1600s, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
possibly 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
circa 1827–1830, Edo period (1600–1868)
Patrick A. Nagatani
1981
Margo Kren
1982
Jon O'Neal
1989
Jon O'Neal
1989
Jon O'Neal
1989
Jon O'Neal
1993
Jon O'Neal
1987
Jon O'Neal
1987
Jon O'Neal
1989
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Michael Sims, Zanatta Editions
1996
Renée Stout
1998
Jenny Schmid
2003
Eric Avery, Bill Lagatutta, Peregrine Press
1987
Eric Avery
2000
Lucas Kilian, Johann Remmelin, Stephan Michelspacher
1613
unrecorded Ibibio artist
early-mid 1900s
unrecorded Oyo artist
early-mid 1900s
unrecorded Potawatomi artist
circa 1890
unrecorded Ibibio artist
early 1900s–1967
unrecorded Hopi artist
late 1800s–1999
Renée Stout
2006
Elizabeth Layton
November 4, 1981
Jane Bunker
2005
Renée Stout, Pyramid Atlantic
2005
Elizabeth Layton
1979
Peter G. Thompson
2012
Peter G. Thompson
2014
Peter G. Thompson
2009
Philip Heying
2014
Athena Tacha
1992
Gina Westergard
2005
Ruth Cuthand
2018
Dylan Mortimer
2018
Dylan Mortimer
2018
Sean Caulfield
2018
Merritt Johnson
2018
Merritt Johnson
2016
Merritt Johnson
2018
Holland Houdek
2013
Holland Houdek
2017
Andrew Carnie, Rachel Causer
2017
Andrew Carnie, Rachel Causer
2017
Andrew Carnie
2018
Andrew Carnie, Vanessa Rolf
2020
Andrew Carnie, Andrea Barrett
2020
Andrew Carnie
2017
Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery, Nicolas Henri Jacob
1832–1854
Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery, Nicolas Henri Jacob
1832–1854
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Jan Wandelaar
reprinted 1748
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Jan Wandelaar
reprinted 1748
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Jan Wandelaar
reprinted 1748
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Jan Wandelaar
reprinted 1748
Robert Hooke
1667 (second reprinting of first edition)
Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Ibn Ilyās
1600s (original 1400s)
William Cowper
1750 (original 1698)
Franciscus Francisci and Johannes Criegher, Andreas Vesalius
1568 (original 1543)
Holland Houdek
2019
Holland Houdek
2013
Holland Houdek
2017
Holland Houdek
date unknown
Holland Houdek
date unknown
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Dario Robleto
2017
Alfred Rethel
1851
Andrew Carnie
2020
Andrew Carnie
2020
Andrew Carnie
2020
Andrew Carnie
2020
Dario Robleto
2019
Dario Robleto
2019
Horace Vernet
1820
Diane Arbus, Neil Selkirk
1965
Diane Arbus, Neil Selkirk
1969
Joseph Judd Pennell
1906
Leland D. Rice
1977
Nicoló Boldrini, Titian
1500s
Olga Bing
1917
Olga Bing
1917
Olga Bing
1917
Olga Bing
1917
Elizabeth Layton
1987
Elizabeth Layton
1977
Elizabeth Layton
August 1984
Andrew Carnie
2020
Dario Robleto
2017
Ingrid Bachmann
2012
Mary Anne Jordan, Andrew Carnie
2020
Mary Anne Jordan, Andrew Carnie
2020
Andrew Carnie, Nazanin Amiri Meers
2020
Sydney Jane Brooke Campbell Maybrier Pursel, Andrew Carnie
2020
Andrew Carnie, Nazanin Amiri Meers
2020
Sydney Jane Brooke Campbell Maybrier Pursel, Andrew Carnie
2020
Sebald Beham
1541
Melania Mazinyani
1988–1996
Andrew Carnie, Juan José Castaño-Márquez
2020
Andrew Carnie, Juan José Castaño-Márquez
2020
Ingrid Bachmann
2021
Hermann-Paul
1914–1918
Sean Caulfield
2018
Sean Caulfield
2018
Sean Caulfield
2018
Andrew Carnie
2020
Events
February 5, 2021
Activity
2:30–4:00PM
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March 1, 2021
Activity
7:00–8:30PM
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March 2, 2021
Talk
5:30–6:30PM
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March 16, 2021
Talk
6:00–7:30PM
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March 23, 2021
Talk
5:30–6:30PM
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April 6, 2021
Talk
11:00AM–12:00PM
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April 26, 2021
Talk
4:00–5:00PM
Access the livestream at https://www.spencerart.ku.edu/iari/inquiries/tending-to-the-body
April 27, 2021
Performance
7:30–10:00PM
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April 29, 2021
Talk
6:00–7:15PM
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May 1, 2021
Talk
11:00AM–12:15PM
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May 6, 2021
Talk
11:00AM–12:00PM
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November 4, 2021
Talk
10:15–11:00AM
Spencer Museum of Art, Brosseau Learning Center, 318