Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
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
1993
Jon O'Neal
1987
Jon O'Neal
1987
Jon O'Neal
1989
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Michael Sims, Zanatta Editions
1996
Jenny Schmid
2003
Eric Avery, Bill Lagatutta, Peregrine Press
1987
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
Gina Westergard
2005
Ruth Cuthand
2018
Dylan Mortimer
2018
Dylan Mortimer
2018
Sean Caulfield
2018
Merritt Johnson
2018
Merritt Johnson
2018
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
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
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
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
Andrew Carnie
2020
Andrew Carnie
2020
Andrew Carnie
2020
Andrew Carnie
2020
Dario Robleto
2019
Diane Arbus, Neil Selkirk
1965
Diane Arbus, Neil Selkirk
1969
Joseph Judd Pennell
1906
Leland D. Rice
1977
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
Join us via Zoom by registering online at https://deptsec.ku.edu/~spencerart/forms/form/17
March 1, 2021
Activity
7:00–8:30PM
Register to join us via Zoom: https://bit.ly/KU-VirtualZineClub
March 2, 2021
Talk
5:30–6:30PM
Register to join us via Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkc-iuqT8jH9aJSohRvYOygrs5fd8mKsTS
March 16, 2021
Talk
6:00–7:30PM
Register here https://tinyurl.com/Covering-Sarah
March 23, 2021
Talk
5:30–6:30PM
Register to join us via Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtceuurDIjHte4mDp0Wel4HUbG3RWo3tdo
April 2, 2021
Audience
April 6, 2021
Talk
11:00AM–12:00PM
Register to join us via Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtc-Goqz4tGdVSIJOiY6R48uDKzUdY9uWZ
April 23, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
April 24, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
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
Audience
April 27, 2021
Performance
7:30–10:00PM
Join us via Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/509026820, Lied Center of Kansas, 1600 Stewart Dr
April 29, 2021
Audience
April 29, 2021
Talk
6:00–7:15PM
Register to join us via Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc-isqTsjHtQJn3Oc1v36KJzg70sZzQbY
April 30, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
May 1, 2021
Talk
11:00AM–12:15PM
Register to join us via Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvcO6gqT8iEtbXl3acx5FgdMmgxdK4fmMl
May 1, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
May 6, 2021
Talk
11:00AM–12:00PM
Register here to join us via Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkceyrrT8tH90G7MVJ4Zg68DeRfgtyrEsH
May 7, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
May 8, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
May 14, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
May 15, 2021
Activity
1:00–5:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art
November 4, 2021
Talk
10:15–11:00AM
Spencer Museum of Art, Brosseau Learning Center, 318

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