In the first of her talks on this topic, Fiona James discussed how anatomical studies, medical practice and medical practitioners often appeared as subjects in Western art from the medieval period onwards.
In Part 2 she continues to explore medical subjects in art; this time focusing on themes of addiction, mental illness, suffering, the war wounded, and the links between the artist and the surgeon.
Tonight’s talk will look in particular at how artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries approached these issues.
(Main image above is Pablo Picasso’s “The absinthe drinker”, 1901).
Licensed bar. Doors open at 6.30pm. Talk starts at 7:00pm.