He was captivated by the enormous steel-ribbed model of the planet, the fair’s visionary portrayal of the future, and especially the panorama of New York City that was commissioned by the city planner Robert Moses . The scale model of the five boroughs, with replicas of 895,000 buildings and bridges, remains the centerpiece of the museum on the old fairgrounds at Flushing Meadows Corona Park . For the Queens Museum, which stresses the history of its site — it was also the first headquarters of the United Nations — it is particularly exciting to display the drawings “in a context which made them possible,” wrote Tom Finkelpearl, the museum’s executive director, in an essay introducing the exhibit. Later, when you step out blinking into the real city, and see the big versions of the things you just saw, you get the alternately exhilarating and unsettling sensation that you’ve become tiny and entered the model, or that it has blown up a thousandfold to engulf you.
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The model — so realistic its four chambers beat in the same asymmetrical rhythm on screen as does a real heart in the human body — is the work of three British doctors who say the creation will improve both training and care during surgery. The three-dimensional model’s intricate details coupled with life-like animation that doctors can easily manipulate make the cyber heart unique, said Sue Wright, an anesthesiologist at the Heart Hospital in London who helped design the heart. These limitations make it harder to teach students how to perform a complicated ultrasound scan of the heart that entails guiding a probe down through the throat to the stomach. During a recent demonstration, Wright showed how a few mouse clicks allows a doctor to examine the inside or outside walls and intricate structures of the heart, which pumps about five liters of blood per minute. They also analyzed hundreds of previous models and enlisted a company known for its work on films to provide the technical know-how to translate the data they had gathered into a software program to power the virtual heart on screen.
Redon is a late-19th and early 20th-century French painter who worked in symbolism, a genre that rejected realism in favor of mystical, evocative techniques, while Da Vinci’s works are generally classified as realistic, and strongly influenced by his studies in biology and engineering. The talk is the 2007 Art History Alumni Lecture, presented as part of Knox College’s Homecoming Weekend. Yoder completed her bachelor’s degree at Knox in 2004, majoring in art history and minoring in anthropology-sociology. Currently studying at the University of Iowa, she received a master’s degree this year, and is completing a doctoral degree in art history.
