Carin Berkowitz, Executive Director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities
In 1807, the London surgeon and anatomist Charles Bell was called by his friend Thomas Bruce, the Earl of Elgin, to view the friezes of the Parthenon, recently brought to London, having been taken from their original home in Greece. Bell was asked to assess the statues as an anatomist and to analyze their representations of the human form. Why would an anatomist participate in such an activity? The answer, as it turns out, has a great deal to do with the ways in which science, art, and religion were fundamentally related to each other. Those relationships, I will argue, are lasting, and we can find evidence of them in today’s science as well.
Carin Berkowitz is the executive director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. She is the author of the book Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform, co-editor of Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America, and author of several articles on the uses of images and objects in anatomy that have appeared in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, The British Journal for the History of Science, and History of Science.
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William Kirby I really enjoyed Professor Berkowitz’s lecture titled “Anatomists and the Stolen Statues: Stories of Science, Art, and Religion”. Professor Berkowitz discussed the many detailed illustrations, constructions, and preservation methods used ... - Nature of the Human Body: Art, Science, or Both? April 22, 2019
Kallie Hutchinson Dr. Carin Berkowitz’s talk discussed the interdisciplinary nature of the human body as it pertains in art and the science of anatomy. She thoroughly analyzed Charles Bell’s work in an ... - Artistic Anatomy Paving the Way April 22, 2019
Adam Zarfos This most recent lecture given by Dr. Carin Berkowitz was extremely interesting in the context of this course and might have been my favorite lecture in this series to date. ... - An Interdisciplinary Approach? April 22, 2019
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Zaie Nursey Carin Berkowitz gave an intriguing talk about Charles Bell, a British anatomist living and working in 19th century England, and his practice of linking science and art. Bell was a ... - Art and Science April 22, 2019
slattia I thought Carin Berkowitz’s lecture of “Anatomists and the Stolen Statues: Stories of Science, Art, and Religion” was very interesting and discussed two areas of study that I always separate ... - Art Meets Anatomy April 22, 2019
egrubman In this past week’s lecture by Dr. Carin Berkowitz, she spoke on two disciplines that commonly do not come into conversation with one and other: art and anatomy. While many ... - Realism in Art and Anatomy April 22, 2019
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Isabella Scribano In this lecture, Dr. Carin Berkowitz, the Executive Director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, spoke about why anatomists would ever be asked to analyze statues. Her talk ... - art & medicine/anatomy- what does that mean today? April 20, 2019
gohwil21 Dr. Carin Berokwitz explored the connections between art, science, and religion. I enjoyed her effort to present the material in a clear, interesting, and accessible fashion through storytelling coupled with ...