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01.12.2014 | Art in Science
Art in Science: The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins
Erschienen in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Ausgabe 12/2014
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For most of recorded history, art has been both an aesthetic experience as well as a method of education and commentary. At times, art illustrates and interprets the world around us, teaches or conveys a message without the need for written language or even literacy, records an historical event, or provides opinion. Some works of art are examples of this entire spectrum of opportunity. We will use The Gross Clinic, a painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), to explore these concepts (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1
The Gross Clinic was introduced to the public in 1876 at the United States Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, PA, USA. (Republished with permission from the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the Alumni Association to Jefferson Medical College in 1878 and purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2007 with the generous support of more than 3600 donors).
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