{"id":57,"date":"2015-09-09T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st197\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2015-09-14T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:25:49","slug":"extreme-makeovers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/events\/extreme-makeovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Makeovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Extreme Makeovers: The Visual Culture of Plastic Surgery, with Tanya Sheehan (Art, Colby)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>November 17 at 7:00 in Lovejoy 100<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_155\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/files\/2015\/09\/plan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-image-155\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/files\/2015\/09\/plan.png\" alt=\"Plan by Saville\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenny Saville, Plan, 1993, oil on canvas, 108 x 84 inches<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Focusing on the 20th-century and contemporary United States, this lecture explores the relationship between plastic surgery and visual culture. First, it presents plastic surgery as an increasingly popular practice motivated by a subject&#8217;s concern with being seen in a social environment. Second, it emphasizes the cultural importance of documenting visually, and especially photographically, the changes to the body and self produced through surgical operations. By reading closely images from the popular media and fine arts, Professor Sheehan will shed light on how and why Americans have sought to remake human nature through the visual culture of cosmetic medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Tanya Sheehan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Art at Colby College, where she teaches American and African American art history. She is the author of <em>Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America<\/em> (2011). Her edited books include <em>Photography, History, Difference<\/em> (2014), <em>Photography and Its Origins<\/em> (2015), and the forthcoming <em>Grove Guide to Photography<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Discussions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/12\/15\/the-human-body-as-a-landscape\/\">The Human Body As a Landscape<\/a>  December 15, 2015<lcp_author>Jessica Tregidgo<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I found this evening&#8217;s lecture on plastic surgery incredibly interesting. Cosmetic surgery is aimed at improving one&#8217;s physical characteristics. In more recent years, plastic surgery has become increasingly common. Celebrities ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/12\/15\/plastic-surgery-2\/\">Plastic surgery<\/a>  December 15, 2015<lcp_author>Sophie Suechting<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">The visual culture of plastic surgery is not something I had though about until this talk. This talk was thought provoking and made me reconsider a lot of the ways ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/12\/14\/plastic-surgery\/\">Plastic Surgery&#8230;.?<\/a>  December 14, 2015<lcp_author>Jay Arr<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Tanya Sheehan spoke on plastic surgery, and its relationship with art and human nature, and the interaction between them all. Her first image was a self-portrait of an artist before ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/12\/14\/manipulation-of-the-physical-apperance\/\">Manipulation of the physical apperance<\/a>  December 14, 2015<lcp_author>Kay Shigemori<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">The talk that Professor Sheehan gave on \u201cthe visual culture of plastic surgery\u201d was fascinating. It was an interesting topic in the \u2018human\/nature\u2019 theme, as she compared the \u2018natural\u2019 versus ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/12\/13\/under-the-knife\/\">Under the Knife<\/a>  December 13, 2015<lcp_author>Kathryn Chow<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Tanya Sheehan&#8217;s work on plastic surgery as a form of visual culture uncovers a lot of flaws in the way we think about health, beauty, nature, and how we want ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/12\/11\/are-we-just-what-we-are\/\">Are we just what we are?<\/a>  December 11, 2015<lcp_author>Nick Pattison<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Makeovers are the epitome of human\/nature and how technology intersects with that. Using botox for plastic surgery, we inject the patient with\u00a0a localized muscle-paralyzing organism. It is interesting to see ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/12\/08\/plastic-surgery-with-your-phone\/\">Plastic surgery with your phone<\/a>  December 8, 2015<lcp_author>Joshua<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Tanya Sheehan gave us a lot to think about in her talk, &#8220;Extreme Makeovers: The Visual Culture of Plastic surgery.&#8221; Our visual culture presents itself all the way from adding ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/12\/01\/plastic-surgery-is-it-natural-or-unnatural\/\">Plastic Surgery: Is It Natural Or Unnatural?<\/a>  December 1, 2015<lcp_author>Stacey Hou<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Plastic surgery is a maneuver developed during wartime and morphed into a beauty pursuit. The popularity of plastic surgery should not be a surprise\u2014it\u2019s astonishing how much modern human beings ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/12\/01\/the-digital-manipulation-of-beauty\/\">The Digital Manipulation of Beauty<\/a>  December 1, 2015<lcp_author>Maya Meltsner<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I thought Professor Sheehan\u2019s lecture was fascinating because the material it covered is so pertinent in our society today. Although admittedly some of the content about the lengths to which ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/12\/01\/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall\/\">Mirror, Mirror on the Wall<\/a>  December 1, 2015<lcp_author>Ernesto<\/lcp_author><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the prettiest of them all? As I get older every year, this is the question that I see many people asking themselves. 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