| Barbara Larson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. She specializes in connections between art and science in the modern period. Her essay "Curing Degeneration: Health and the Neo-Classical Body in Early Twentieth-Century France" will appear in In Sickness and in Health: Disease as a Metaphor in Art and Popular Wisdom (University of Delaware Press, 2003). She has just completed the book The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society and the Fantastic World of Odilon Redon (Penn State University Press, 2004). Email the author at bjlarson@syr.edu. |