Oberlin College and Conservatory

Exhibition Opening: A Picture of Health — Art and the Mechanisms of Healing

Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 10:00am to 5:00pm

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Ripin Print Gallery
87 North Main Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

A Picture of Health explores the mechanisms by which art has been perceived to bring about the health and well-being of its makers and beholders. Sacred objects touched during religious ceremonies or worn on the body have promised healing and protection. Similarly, images held in the hand and admired, or representations of sacred figures who receive petitions for renewed health, have been produced in cultures east and west since antiquity. But art objects have also provided consolation or mitigated feelings of grief, providing effective substitutes for that which is lost or distant, whether a beloved person, place, or longed-for object.

Curated by Christina Neilson, assistant professor of Renaissance and baroque art history, Oberlin College, and Frances Gage, associate professor of art, Buffalo State, the State University of New York

Event Type

Arts

Departments

Academic, Art, Administrative, Allen Memorial Art Museum

Website

http://oberlin.edu/amam/pictureofheal...

Cost

Free

Contact Person

Jason Trimmer

Contact Phone Number

775-8671

Contact E-mail Address

jtrimmer@oberlin.edu

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