The Art History Newsletter

Medical Art

by Jon Lackman | 19 April 2006 | Conferences, Contemporary

From the intriguingly themed group blog, “Medical Humanities: A conversation about the intersection between medicine and the arts,” comes this illustrated post on the AAH conference: “Last week I spent three happy days in Leeds at the Association of Art Historians annual conference. On the last day I co-convened the student session and was pleased to find that the papers we had selected lived up to expectations. I was particularly taken by the penultimate paper which was concerned with the use of medical imaging technologies in art practice. It promised a lot and didn’t disappoint…”