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October 2000
Catfish, Comedy and Cloisonné
Catfish play a prominent role in two of the prints, and both relate to a famous earthquake in Japan but in very different ways. "One strikingly colorful diptych (1881) is remarkable not only in its very modern shade, but also in its puzzle-like rendering of a serious subject and more than one person has already commented on its similarity to a well-known Matisse painting," says Wakeford. "It is known that he and Van Gogh and Whistler and others were inspired by Japanese prints." The north end of the Gallery combines an instructional acupuncture scroll from 1550 with ivory figures which physicians used with female patients to avoid as much physical contact as possible. These are accompanied by two pill containers, one exquisitely small and wooden, the other cloisonné. The exhibit will run through the winter. Links: Library's Galen II Communique -- Images from the East Asian Collection |
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A
new exhibit, featuring a wide array of images and artifacts from the
Library's East Asian Collection, is now up in the First Floor Gallery
of the Library. The exhibit -- "Catfish, Comedy and Cloisonné"
-- was completed last week. It mixes a few prints from the collection
which are not medically related with some that deal with more common
topics such as measles and cholera. As in previous Library exhibits,
deities and Buddhist priests play important roles, but those roles are
somewhat different in the prints in this display. "Physicians are included
in more than one woodblock, but we are fortunate to have a representation
of what must be one of the first -- and very few thereafter -- woman
physicians, dating to 1802," says Paul Wakeford, curator of the Library's
First Floor Gallery.