Osler Library Exhibit - 鈥淥ur Friend, the Sun: Images of Light Therapeutics from the Osler Library Collection, 1901-1944鈥�
The exhibit delves into the visual culture of Heliotherapy, an ancient practice of total bodily exposure to sunlight, and Phototherapy, an electric light therapy pioneered in the 1890s.听 How heliotherapeutic and phototherapeutic practices were disseminated and popularized within the history and visual culture of light therapeutics during the early twentieth century will be explored using illustrated texts and objects from the Osler Library鈥檚 collection 鈥� so too will themes of pleasure and discomfort, ancient and modern, and the natural and artificial.
Curated by: Dr. Tania Anne Woloshyn of the Department of Art History & Communication Studies, 91黑料网
Accessible during opening hours. Free entrance. All
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For more information contact the Osler Library at 514-398-4475, ext
09873 or osler.library [at] mcgill.ca.
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To read more on the exhibit, download the exhibit handout (pdf).
- You can also to launch the exhibit. (Recording date: Jan 24, 2011)
