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What I have learned from my four
weeks in this course, and what has been reinforced with this weeks lecture
material, is that art is far more expansive than most people realize. I would
have never considered medicine a form of art, but when you break art down to
its most simple components I realize that it is art. In its most basic respect,
the act of surgery is an art requiring extreme precision.
It is much easier to see medicine’s
relationship with art when looking at an art form such as plastic surgery. In
this field doctors are directly affecting the human physical appearance and
reshaping it to someone else’s desire. When this connection was first made I
immediately remembered “The Lizard Man”, a man I had watched a documentary on who
used plastic surgery and other body modifications to make himself look like a
lizard. “Performance plastic surgery” was not an art form I had ever been
exposed to, so at the time I didn’t think of his surgeries as art.
Lastly, I was surprised by the way medicine has influenced art outside of being an art form of its own. The invention of the MRI gave many artists a first look at the inside of a human body. Medicine has also had artistic influence as MRI and CAT Scans have been used in the creation of art. From brain-imaged self-portraits to VR experiences inside the human sternum, art has always been strongly influenced by medicine and medtech.
Works Cited
Casini, Silvia. “Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait: MRI Configurations between Science and the Arts.” Configurations, vol. 19, no. 1, 2011, pp. 73–99., doi:10.1353/con.2011.0008.
Herman, Joseph. “Medicine: the Science and the Art.” Medical Humanities, Institute of Medical Ethics, 1 June 2001, mh.bmj.com/content/27/1/42.
“History, Present and Future of Medical Art.” Medical Art Through History | Vesalius, www.vesaliusfabrica.com/en/related-reading/karger-gazette/medical-art-through-history.html.
Lecher, Colin. “Amazing Art Inspired By MRIs.” Popular Science, 5 June 2013, www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-06/amazing-art-inspired-mris.
TEDxTalks. “Why Medicine Needs Art | Jill Sonke | TEDxUF.” YouTube, YouTube, 22 Apr. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=23mve5S90Ws.
Casini, Silvia. “Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait: MRI Configurations between Science and the Arts.” Configurations, vol. 19, no. 1, 2011, pp. 73–99.
Herman, Joseph. “Medicine: the Science and the Art.” Medical Humanities, Institute of Medical Ethics, 1 June 2001
“History, Present and Future of Medical Art.” Medical Art Through History | Vesalius
Lecher, Colin. “Amazing Art Inspired By MRIs.” Popular Science, 5 June 2013
TEDxTalks. “Why Medicine Needs Art | Jill Sonke | TEDxUF.” YouTube, YouTube, 22 Apr. 2015
Casini, Silvia. “Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as Mirror and Portrait: MRI Configurations between Science and the Arts.” Configurations, vol. 19, no. 1, 2011, pp. 73–99., doi:10.1353/con.2011.0008.
Herman, Joseph. “Medicine: the Science and the Art.” Medical Humanities, Institute of Medical Ethics, 1 June 2001, mh.bmj.com/content/27/1/42.
“History, Present and Future of Medical Art.” Medical Art Through History | Vesalius, www.vesaliusfabrica.com/en/related-reading/karger-gazette/medical-art-through-history.html.
Lecher, Colin. “Amazing Art Inspired By MRIs.” Popular Science, 5 June 2013, www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-06/amazing-art-inspired-mris.
TEDxTalks. “Why Medicine Needs Art | Jill Sonke | TEDxUF.” YouTube, YouTube, 22 Apr. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=23mve5S90Ws.
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