Ημερίδα με θέμα ΚΑΛΛΙΤΕΧΝΙΚΗ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ στην Ελλάδα από το 1990 έως τα χρόνια της "κρίσης"

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Angelique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray

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Manikins and models by Angelique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray (French ,1712-1790) , the “King’s Midwife”. Madame Du Coudray’s "machine", a mannequin for teaching obstetrics, was invented in the 18th century by a midwife determined to combat the ignorance of country midwives who endangered the lives of women and children. Madame Du Coudray spent twenty-five years travelling the towns and citi es of France, teaching her methods and selling her ingenious "machines". The only surviving example of the "machine", patented in 1778, is on display in the Museum of Flaubert and the History of Medicine, in Rouen. It includes a life-size mannequin representing the lower part of the female body, a doll the size of a newborn baby, and various accessories demonstrating female anatomy, a seven-month fœtus, twins etc Among the many accessories to show the different phases of pregnancy is the representation of a matrix and a fetus of seven months. T...
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Jonas Mekas

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Jonas Mekas, ‘Godfather’ of American Avant-Garde Film, Is Dead at 96. Jonas Mekas in 2017. Part intellectual, part enthusiast, part provocateur, Mr. Mekas could be counted on to sound off on behalf of experimental films. By Bruce Weber Jan. 23, 2019 Jonas Mekas, a filmmaker, curator, archivist, critic and all-around evangelist for independently made movies in general, and for those variously known as experimental, underground or avant-garde in particular, died on Wednesday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 96. His son, Sebastian, confirmed the death. It is rare to have consensus on the pre-eminence of any person in the arts. But few would argue that Mr. Mekas, who was often called the godfather or the guru of the New American Cinema — his name for the underground film movement of the 1950s and ’60s — was the leading champion of the kind of film that doesn’t show at the multiplex. A Lithuanian immigrant who, with a younger brother, Adolfas, arrived in New York City in...
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