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- Title
Theodore Wan and the Subject of Medical Illustration.
- Authors
CONLEY, CHRISTINE
- Abstract
Analyzes the medical photography created by Theodore Wan when he was a graduate student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design during the late 1970's. His expressionist work challenged the concept of the ready-made, as embraced by the Conceptualist school. Considered from the point of view of Roland Barthe's studium and punctum, or the Lacanian intrusive gaze, Wan's work belied his increasing medical debilitation as he moved closer to his death at age 33 from cancer. His work was, as well, an expression of his psychological state. However, by the beginning of the 1980's, Wan's work showed a much greater demarcation between art and biography.
- Publication
RACAR: Canadian Art Review / Revue d'art Canadienne, 2008, Vol 33, Issue 1/2, p14
- ISSN
0315-9906
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1069544ar