4:30pm
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Brought to you by Coney Island U.S.A.
CIUSA's summer lecture series returns with a series of scholarly talks about the things you want to know! With the people you want to know them from! Sunday afternoons at 4:30pm all summer long! $5, Free for Coney Island USA Members.
June 13
Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Library, Anatomical Venuses, The Slashed Beauty, and Fetuses Dancing a Jig: A Journey into the Curious World of the Medical Museum
This afternoon's highly-illustrated lecture will introduce you to the the Medical Museum and its curious denizens, from the Anatomical Venus to the Slashed Beauty, the allegorical fetal skeleton tableau to the taxidermied bearded lady, the flayed horseman of the apocalypse to the three fetuses dancing a jig. The lecture will contextualize these artifacts by situating them within their historical context via a discussion of the history of medical modeling, a survey of the great artists of the genre, and an examination of the other death-related diversions which made up the cultural landscape at the time that these objects were originally created, collected, and exhibited.
