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Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.
List of contents
Introduction Picturing Pandemics
Part 1: Treating and Experiencing Disease: Medicine, Religion, and Myth 1. The Inception of 'Science and Supplication': Architectural Programs, Devotional Paintings, and Votive Processions in Early Modern Venice 2. Anatomy, Microscopy, and Satire: Looking at Cholera in Early Nineteenth-Century England 3. Combating Cholera: Tanuki Scrotum and The Visual Culture of Disease in Nineteenth Century Japan 4. Jean Geoffroy and the Conflicted Response to Childhood Epidemics in Fin-de-Siècle France 5. Spaces of Sickness: The Phenomenology of the Sickroom in Nordic Symbolist Art
Part 2: Reporting, Representing, and Interpreting Disease 6. Invisible Destroyers: Cholera and COVID in British Visual Culture 7. Contagion and the Camera: The Iconography of Disease in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century India 8. Capturing the Invisible Enemy: Photographs of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic 9. Contaminating the "End of AIDS" in Contemporary British AIDS Media
Part 3: Public Health: The Politics of Body and State 10. Plague, Trade, and Governance in Eighteenth-Century Tunisia 11. Deconstructing the Story of a Contagion: Tuberculosis and Its Representations in Early Republican Turkey
About the author
Marsha Morton is Professor of Art History at Pratt Institute. She has published numerous essays and three books on interdisciplinary topics dealing with art, science, anthropology, and music in nineteenth-century German and Austrian cultural history.
Ann-Marie Akehurst, PhD, is an independent scholar and a Trustee of the Society of Architectural Historians (GB). She speaks internationally and has published widely on sacred space, urban identity, and the art and architecture of spaces of sickness and wellbeing in early modern Britain and Europe.
Summary
Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.
