The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America - Elizabeth L. Lee, Associate Professor of Art History (Hardback) 27-01-2022

In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, "Health-is the thing!" Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized midcareer "there is someth