Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body

Exhibition

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Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
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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.

Works of art

Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Ibn Ilyās (1380–1422), Tashrīḥ-i badan-i insān (Mansur’s Anatomy)
Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Ibn Ilyās (1380–1422)
1600s (original 1400s)
William Cowper (circa 1666–1709), Anatomia corporum humanorum
William Cowper (circa 1666–1709)
1750 (original 1698)
Franciscus Francisci and Johannes Criegher; Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body)
Franciscus Francisci and Johannes Criegher; Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)
1568 (original 1543)
Melania Mazinyani, Child Taken by Mermaid
Melania Mazinyani
1988–1996
Lucas Kilian (1579–1637); Johann Remmelin (1583–1632); Stephan Michelspacher (active 1613–1619), Anatomical Plate with Male and Female Figures
Lucas Kilian (1579–1637); Johann Remmelin (1583–1632); Stephan Michelspacher (active 1613–1619)
1613
unrecorded Ibibio artist, idiok mask
unrecorded Ibibio artist
early-mid 1900s
unrecorded Oyo artist, agere Ifa (divination cup)
unrecorded Oyo artist
early-mid 1900s
藥師佛 Yaoshi fo (Medicine Buddha)
late 1500s–early 1600s, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Gōshō Mandara (Mandala of Amitābha’s Welcoming Descent)
possibly 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), Bodaichū Kodaisō attended by the Physician Shini Andōzen
circa 1827–1830, Edo period (1600–1868)
Athena Tacha (born 1936), Brain Cancer Headdress for Maro
Athena Tacha (born 1936)
1992
unrecorded Plains artist, medical bag
unrecorded Plains artist
circa 1890
unrecorded Ibibio artist, possible idiok mask
unrecorded Ibibio artist
early 1900s–1967
unrecorded Hopi artist, Honan (badger katsina)
unrecorded Hopi artist
late 1800s–1999
Elizabeth Layton (1909–1993), Fear
November 4, 1981
Jane Bunker (born 1945), Genesis
Jane Bunker (born 1945)
2005
Gina Westergard (born 1962), Eclipse
Gina Westergard (born 1962)
2005
Ruth Cuthand (born 1953), Reserving: Tuberculosis
Ruth Cuthand (born 1953)
2018