Keith Haring, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wolfgang Tillmans, and the AIDS Epidemic: the use of Visual Art in a Health Humanities Course

Smith, J.A.; Smith, J.A

doi:10.1007/s10912-018-9506-4

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Keith Haring, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wolfgang Tillmans, and the AIDS Epidemic: the use of Visual Art in a Health Humanities Course

Smith, J.A.

Journal of Medical Humanities 40(2): 181-198

2019

ISSN/ISBN: 1573-3645

PMID: 29476297

DOI: 10.1007/s10912-018-9506-4

Document Number: 313473

Contemporary art can be a powerful pedagogical tool in the health humanities. Students in an undergraduate course in the health humanities explore the subjective experience of illness and develop their empathy by studying three artists in the context of the AIDS epidemic: Keith Haring, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Wolfgang Tillmans. Using assignments based in narrative pedagogy, students expand their empathic response to pain and suffering. The role of visual art in health humanities pedagogy is discussed.