Visual Spectacle

Phantasmagoria, 1799, Paris.

Phineas Taylor Barnum, American, 1810-1891.

Siren Fish.  Source link here.

1889 Paris

Moulin Rouge about 1900.

Moulin Rouge performer.

1900

Minstrel

Slapstick

White people in black face. 

After Civil War, black people in black face.

National art from 1850.

Represented black America. 

Influenced perception.

Controversy

Translate formal to general.

Decline after Civil War, 1865 - PT Barnum, Vaudeville. 

Civil Rights, 1960's.

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Jim Crow.  1828.  Image source link here.
Racial segregation laws enacted Reconstruction estimate 1870. In effect until Civil Rights Era, 1960's
Jim Crow was not a person.
Character in 19th century minstrel song, stereotype.
Jump Jim Crow by Thomas D. Rice in blackface

Vaudeville, New York

1880's - 1930's

variety

Origins - Minstrel, freak shows, museums.

1900.  Source link here.

Visual Spectacle

Eugene Sandow, 1867-1925, Prussian born.

Grecian Ideal

Kritian Boy, 3' and 10",  480 BC, Greek.

Canon of Polyclitus.  Contrapposto.

Greek Sculpture (BBC: How Art Made The World)

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Christopher Daniels

Triple H

Visual Spectacle

Engraving done in 1610 shows exhibits and a dissection taking place. 

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1751

Dissection Scene Gallery. Link here to see more images.

Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), painting by Thomas Eakins, 1875

Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Ruysch, painting by Jan van Neck, 1683

Frederik Ruysch, 1638 - 1731, Dutch botanist and anatomist.

Reality TV, Joan Rivers undergoes plastic surgery. Image source link here.

Daguerreotype believed to be a re-enactment of the first demonstration of ether anesthesia, 1846. Source link here.

Photograph, 1902, Jefferson Medical College Hospital.

Junior Mint.