Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease Since 1750: Capturing Contagion

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Marsha Morton (Pratt Institute, USA) Ann-Marie Akehurst (Society of Antiquaries of London, UK)

Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease Since 1750

Capturing Contagion

Marsha Morton (Pratt Institute, USA), Ann-Marie Akehurst (Society of Antiquaries of London, UK)

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Routledge
19 December 2024

The Arts: General & Reference; History of Art & Design Styles; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Medical sociology; History of medicine

Series: Science and the Arts since 1750

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.

Images discussed range from the depiction of people and places to the invisible realms of pathogens and emotions, while topics include the messaging of disease prevention and containment in public health initiatives, the motivations of governments to ensure control, the criticism of authority in graphic satire, and the private experience of illness in the domestic realm. Essays explore biomedical conditions as well as the recurrent constructed social narratives of bias, blame, and othering regarding race, gender, and class that are frequently highlighted in visual representations.

This volume offers a pictured genealogy of pandemic experience that has continuing resonance. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, history of medicine, and medical humanities.

Edited by: Marsha Morton (Pratt Institute USA), Ann-Marie Akehurst (Society of Antiquaries of London, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032280257
ISBN 10: 1032280255
Series: Science and the Arts since 1750
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 19 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.