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Bones, Books, and Bell Jars: Photographs of the Mütter Museum Collection

Andrea Baldeck

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Description:Bones Books & Bell Jars offers a contemporary fusion of art and medicine, recalling an era when artists and physicians collaborated to educate aspiring medical students and share information with other medical practitioners. Andrea Baldeck was given free rein to mine Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum’s vast collection of pathological specimens, anatomical models, surgical instruments, illustrated textbooks and other 19th century artifacts, to create her “cabinet of wonders” inspired still life photographs.Baldeck wends her way with a sense of wonderment through the off-limit hallways and cabinets closed to the public. She shares her own aesthetic pleasure from a uniquely informed perspective: two decades earlier she left the operating room and a career as an internist and anesthesiologist, to enter the darkroom as a photographer.“Behind the scenes…in locked rooms ranging from basement to attic, dwell a trove of artifacts, specimens and texts,” writes Baldeck in the Introduction. “To gain access to these is a singular privilege, a journey through time and across a continuum of the healing arts…. What follows is an experiential account of…keeping company with the past…to produce still life photographs that reflect on the roles of art and science in documenting the history of medicine.”Baldeck conjures up a past describing tools found in the museum’s Mobile Storage room: “Some speak of a time before the germ theory of disease and asepsis, when elegant tools might be casually wiped clean and replaced in velvet-lined boxes, awaiting use on the next patient, like the field kit of a Civil War surgeon…” Moving on to the Bone Room, she contemplates the wax models and skeletons, and the flesh-and-blood patients they represent: “The strange juxtaposition of fleshless bone and boneless flesh in this sequestered space speaks wordlessly, yet compellingly, of affliction and mortality.”Baldeck’s lyrical black-and-white photographs are meant to engage the eye, stimulate the imagination and provoke thoughts and questions. A common denominator pervades then and now — the desire to “advance the science of medicine and lessen human misery."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bones, Books, and Bell Jars: Photographs of the Mütter Museum Collection. To get started finding Bones, Books, and Bell Jars: Photographs of the Mütter Museum Collection, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 132

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Release: 2012

ISBN: 098494060X

Description: Bones Books & Bell Jars offers a contemporary fusion of art and medicine, recalling an era when artists and physicians collaborated to educate aspiring medical students and share information with other medical practitioners. Andrea Baldeck was given free rein to mine Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum’s vast collection of pathological specimens, anatomical models, surgical instruments, illustrated textbooks and other 19th century artifacts, to create her “cabinet of wonders” inspired still life photographs.Baldeck wends her way with a sense of wonderment through the off-limit hallways and cabinets closed to the public. She shares her own aesthetic pleasure from a uniquely informed perspective: two decades earlier she left the operating room and a career as an internist and anesthesiologist, to enter the darkroom as a photographer.“Behind the scenes…in locked rooms ranging from basement to attic, dwell a trove of artifacts, specimens and texts,” writes Baldeck in the Introduction. “To gain access to these is a singular privilege, a journey through time and across a continuum of the healing arts…. What follows is an experiential account of…keeping company with the past…to produce still life photographs that reflect on the roles of art and science in documenting the history of medicine.”Baldeck conjures up a past describing tools found in the museum’s Mobile Storage room: “Some speak of a time before the germ theory of disease and asepsis, when elegant tools might be casually wiped clean and replaced in velvet-lined boxes, awaiting use on the next patient, like the field kit of a Civil War surgeon…” Moving on to the Bone Room, she contemplates the wax models and skeletons, and the flesh-and-blood patients they represent: “The strange juxtaposition of fleshless bone and boneless flesh in this sequestered space speaks wordlessly, yet compellingly, of affliction and mortality.”Baldeck’s lyrical black-and-white photographs are meant to engage the eye, stimulate the imagination and provoke thoughts and questions. A common denominator pervades then and now — the desire to “advance the science of medicine and lessen human misery."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bones, Books, and Bell Jars: Photographs of the Mütter Museum Collection. To get started finding Bones, Books, and Bell Jars: Photographs of the Mütter Museum Collection, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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