http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/medmuseum/galleryexhibits/factsoflife/childbirth/history.html |
Where are the images of childbirth in art? Why is this powerful subject, central to all our lives, so absent? I'm searching the web for images to create a personal collection to help inspire my own work.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Earth Birth
Judy Chicago Mixed Media 1983 http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/judy_chicago.php?i=1559 |
16th Century Woodcut
16th Century printed in "Ein schön lustig Trostbüchle von den Empfengknussen und Geburten der Menschen" http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/full/93/3/432 |
Childbirth (#9) - Miniature from Chururgia
by Gerard of Cremona twelfth century http://mw.mcmaster.ca/scriptorium/images/3008w-Childbirth.html |
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
The Midwife
Adrian Bake acrylic on canvas http://www.adrianbakerart.com/labours-of-love/single-gallery/1874050 |
Childbirth scene
ca. 310–30 b.c.;
Hellenistic
Cypriot; Said to be from the temple at Golgoi
Limestone
Source: Childbirth scene [Cypriot] (74.51.2698) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cypriot; Said to be from the temple at Golgoi
Limestone
Source: Childbirth scene [Cypriot] (74.51.2698) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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