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Thursday, March 31, 2005
Exhibit Shows Art of Medical Quackery
This looks like a hoot. I may have to run up to Philly and catch this show before it leaves.
"Quack, Quack, Quack," a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, showcases the prints, posters and pamphlets that guaranteed everything from "animal magnetism" to cures for "the indiscretions of youth" — and were the precursors of today's spam e-mails and late-night infomercials that also promise the moon but rarely deliver.
I had no idea that Maxfield Parrish (one of my favorite illustrators) had worked in this genre.
posted by Broadsheet @ 2:28 PM  
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