Seeing Through Art: Medicine, Art, and Histories of Looking
What story does art tell of the body and our relationship to it? Through a mix of gallery tours, discussion, and drawing classes, this course introduces how art can help us think about the body, and our social engagement with the body, including how these representations have differed across time and cultures. We aim to foster a discussion about the intertwined history of medicine and the visual arts, and to encourage ‘critical’ looking.
This course is co-led by AGO’s artist-instructor Bogdan Luca together with Allison Crawford.
Allison Crawford is a Professor in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a psychiatrist and Senior Scientist at CAMH, with a PhD in English Literature. She is the lead for arts and medicine at the Department of Psychiatry and is the Founder of HeART Lab which brings together the arts, technology, and health.