Art Following Epidemics archive
June 22, 2020 By
During the Spanish flu, existential paintings by Edward Munch and Egon Schiele
June 5, 2020 By
Tuberculosis, rampant in the Romantic era, personified as the feminine ideal
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May 14, 2020 By
Black Death and centuries of artists reckoning with mortality

This third edition of “Art Following Epidemics” by Art Historian Andrea Kirsh presents a snapshot of important works on paper following the Black Death and the infiltration of death imagery in European art for more than two centuries following the plague.

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May 3, 2020 By
Art exploited as propaganda after outbreak of bubonic plague in Jaffa in 1799

In the second post in a new series, “Art Following Epidemics,” Andrea Kirsh explores a propaganda painting commissioned by Napoleon during the bubonic plague.

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April 28, 2020 By
Il Redentore, a post-plague church in Venice

In a new series “Art following epidemics” triggered by thoughts during the COVID-19 pandemic, Andrea Kirsh refers back to her field of Art History to examine art made during or after other epidemics.

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A two-panel, black-and-white comic titled 3:00 at the top, meaning three o’clock in the afternoon, shows 3 women sitting on a bench at a train station. Beth and Annoying Girl are talking and the other woman is looking at her phone. They’re talking about the bailout of SVB Bank, the student loan debt its and comparing the unfairness of those actions taken by the government.
 
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