Full Description
Over the course of Edvard Munch's lifetime, discoveries such as X-rays, germ theory, antibiotics and contraception transformed our understanding of the body forever. The exhibition Lifeblood - Edvard Munch places the Norwegian artist at the heart of this dramatic development, juxtaposing his works with skeletons, scalpels, sputum bottles and a range of other objects from the history of modern healthcare.
In this book, these objects are given voice and presence through a diverse selection of texts written by art and medical historians, healthcare workers, activists, museum professionals, artists and writers. Each contribution takes works or objects from the exhibition as its point of departure, using them as an entryway into the complex terrain of care. The maps they draw are not the same - and that is precisely the point: medical experience is never uniform, but shaped by each individual's circumstances and identities.
Richly illustrated, with contributions by exhibition curator Allison Morehead and by Fatema Abdoolcarim, Patricia G. Berman, Gemma Blackshaw, Alice Butler, Alison W. Chang, Hege Duckert, Jacalyn Duffin, Signe Endresen, Ute Kuhlemann Falck, Jan Grue, Johanna Hedva, Nora Heidorn, Aurora Hoel, Mary Hunter, Cathrine Knudsen, Cathrine Krøger, Olivia Laing, Ageliki Lefkaditou, Phil Loring, Olaug Nilssen, Kaveh Rashidi, Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, Thorvald Steen, Sara Stridsberg, Espen Stueland and Ingvard Wilhelmsen.
Contents
Nine Sketches in Watercolour Writing
Fatema Abdoolcarim
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Lifeblood: Edvard Munch and the Medicalisation of Modern Life - Allison Morehead
Letter to a Young Doctor - Johanna Hedva
No One Here Gets Out Alive - Olivia Laing
Operative Paintings: An X-Ray Perspective on Edvard Munch - Aurora Hoel
'With regard to Edvard's Vaccinations' - A Father's Efforts to Get His Son Vaccinated against Smallpox - Espen Stueland
Springing Lancets and Crippling Theory - Cathrine Krøger
Reflections and Speculations on a Skeleton Left Behind - Phil Loring
The Art and Science of Observation: The Women and the Skeleton - Alison W. Chang
Close Encounters in the Health Archive of an Aunt, Sister and Brother: A 'Sick Women' Letter Exchange - Gemma Blackshaw and Alice Butler
A Place in the Sun - A Dark Wicker Chair in a New Light - Ute Kuhlemann Falck
I Wanted to Live - Olaug Nilssen
Tuberculosis, Stethoscopes and Auscultation - Jacalyn Duffin
Sick Children - Allison Morehead
Death in the Sickroom - Kaveh Rashidi
Medical Eroticism: The Camera and the Female Patient - Natasha Ruiz-Gómez
Self-Portraits in Hell - Ode to All Those I Have Visited in the Psych Ward... - Sara Stridsberg
Inheritance and Shame - Thorvald Steen
The Sorrow of the Composite Body: Syphilitic Infants in Wax and Paint - Mary Hunter
Exhibiting a Baby Incubator - Allison Morehead
The Angel Makers - Hege Duckert
Reading Munch's Madonna through the Lens of Contraception - Nora Heidorn
Edvard Munch's Self Scrutinies, Self-Care and the 'Spanish' Flu - Patricia G. Berman
In the Shadow of Sickness - Signe Endresen
'The Rolling Black Ball': Edvard Munch's Anxiety-Filled Relationship With His Own Health - Ingvard Wilhelmsen
Emotionless Food - Cathrine Knudsen
Munch and Schreiner - Anatomists of Souls and Bodies - Ageliki Lefkaditou
Where the Body Ends and the World Begins. On Prosthesis and the Human Condition - Jan Grue
A Clinic in Copenhagen: Care, Gender, Power - Allison Morehead
Authors' Biographies
Exhibited Works and Artefacts
