Teaching the Body: Film screening of, Hyman Bloom: The Beauty of All Things, in honor of Hyman Bloom's one-hundredth birthday

  • Starts: 5:00 pm on Friday, March 29, 2013
  • Ends: 8:00 pm on Friday, March 29, 2013
In honor of Hyman Bloom's one-hundredth birthday, the film, Hyman Bloom: The Beauty of All Things (directed by Angelica Brisk) will be screened as a part of "Teaching the Body: Artistic Anatomy in the American Academy, from Copley, Rimmer, and Eakins to Contemporary Artists." Teaching the Body explores the intersections between the fields of art and medicine and contextualizes the study of artistic anatomy within American art academies in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, from the first anatomy text of John Singleton Copley, created in 1756, to the contemporary works of Kiki Smith and others. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities.
Audience:
public
Address:
855 Commonwealth Avenue
Room:
Boston University Art Gallery
Fees:
free
Registration:
http://www.bu.edu/art/

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