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Item Details
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THE HEALING PRESENCE OF ART
A HISTORY OF WESTERN ART IN HOSPITALS |
| By: |
Richard Cork |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£50.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
030017036X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300170368 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
2 March, 2012 |
| Pages: |
460 |
| Description: |
From the early Renaissance through to the modern period, artists have made immensely powerful work in hospitals across the western world. This title reveals art's prodigious ability to humanize our hospitals, alleviate their clinical bleakness and leave a profound, lasting impression on patients, staff and visitors. |
| Synopsis: |
Fascinated by the astonishingly rich history of art in hospitals, the well-known critic and art historian Richard Cork has written a brilliant account of the subject. These works, which include masterpieces of Western art, have been produced from Renaissance Florence and Siena to the 20th century. Piero della Francesca made a painting for a hospital in Sansepolcro, as did Hans Memling in Bruges, Matthias Grunewald in Isenheim, El Greco in Toledo, Rembrandt in Amsterdam, William Hogarth in London, Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, and Marc Chagall in Jerusalem. The book's sumptuous images offer a rich range of subjects, from Francisco Goya's dramatic confrontations with suffering to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's sublime, airborne celebrations of resurrection and heavenly ecstasy. Some, like Leonardo da Vinci's incisive drawings, are based on uncompromising firsthand study of hospital patients. Others explore a redemptive world where Christ is born, orphans are rescued, and plague victims are given shelter.In this wide-ranging survey, Cork investigates how such artworks have been used to humanize hospitals, to alleviate their clinical bleakness, and to offer genuine, lasting pleasure to patients, staff, and visitors. |
| Illustrations: |
200 black-&-white illustrations + 240 colour images |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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