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    Art-at-Lunch: Thomas Eakins and The Prevailing Feeling in Regard to Dissection

    Art-at-Lunch: Thomas Eakins and The Prevailing Feeling in Regard to Dissection

    Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

    March 30, 2011


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    As an art professor at PAFA, Thomas Eakins insisted that his advanced students not only study and draw nude models but also dissect cadavers in order to understand human anatomy thoroughly. In an 1879 Scribner's Monthly magazine interview with Eakins, critic William Brownell expressed disgust for such anatomical study as "utterly--inartistic" and disturbingly insensitive to "the prevailing feeling in regard to dissection." Alan C. Braddock will examine anatomical training under Eakins at PAFA in the context of grave-robbing and popular perceptions of medicine in nineteenth-century Philadelphia.


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        Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

        118 & 128 N. Broad Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19102

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        Free

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        March 30, 2011

        Times:

        Noon-1 pm

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