Season 2, Episode 2
Frances Glessner Lee, ‘Living Room’ (c. 1943–48) 
Lee, detail from ‘Living Room’ (body) 
Lee, detail from ‘Living Room’ (cigarettes) 
Lee, ‘Chicago Symphony Orchestra’ (detail) (c. 1930s) 
Narcissa Niblack Thorne, Thorne Miniature Rooms (example: French Salon of the Louis XVI Period, c. 1780) (c. 1937) 
Ben Shahn, ‘The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti’ (1931–32) 
Detail from The Scarpetta House 
Lee, ‘Red Bedroom’ (c. 1944–48) 
Lee, ‘Red Bedroom’ (detail) 
Lee, ‘Parsonage Parlour’ (c. 1946–48) 
Lee, ‘Parsonage Parlour’ (detail) 
Pre-Raphaelite painting: William Holman Hunt, ‘The Awakening Conscience’ (1853) 
Angela Strassheim, ‘Evidence (Kitchen Knife 2)’ (2009) 
Angela Strassheim, ‘Evidence (Pistol 1)’ (2009) 
Angela Strassheim, ‘Evidence No. 8’ (2009) 
Angela Strassheim, ‘Left Behind’ series, ‘Untitled (Horses)’ (2004) 
Paul Seawright, ‘Sectarian Murder’ series, ‘Tuesday 3rd April 1973’ (1988) 
Stephen Chalmers, ‘Unmarked’ series (c. 2010)
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Emma and Christy look at Frances Glessner Lee’s Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (c. 1940s) AKA dollhouses of death. We talk Victorian children and dollplay; the origins of legal medicine; CSI as visual analysis; Barbies and buzzcuts; girlbossing on the police force; busybodies, gender, and the history of policing; class voyeurism; contemporary art and crime scene photography; Sherlock Holmes; and the afterlives of evidence.
MEDIA DISCUSSED
Frances Glessner Lee, Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (VR experience) (c. 1940s)
Frances Glessner Lee, Living Room and details (Body and Cigarettes) (c. 1943–48)
Frances Glessner Lee, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Detail) (c. 1930s)
Narcissa Niblack Thorne, Thorne Miniature Rooms (c. 1930s)
Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (1931–32)
The Scarpetta House
Frances Glessner Lee, Red Bedroom and detail (c. 1944–48)
Frames Glessner Lee, Parsonage Parlor and detail (c. 1946–48)
Pre-Raphaelite painting: William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience (1853)
Angela Strassheim, Evidence (Kitchen Knife 2) (2009)
Angela Strassheim, Evidence (Pistol 1) (2009)
Angela Strassheim, Evidence No. 8 (2009)
Angela Strassheim, Left Behind series, Untitled (Horses) (2004)
Paul Seawright, Sectarian Murder series, Tuesday 3rd April 1973 (1988)
Stephen Chalmers, Unmarked Series (c. 2010)
REFERENCES
Simon Armitage for Channel 4, In a Nutshell (2014)
Kate Winkler Dawson, American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI (London: Icon Books, 2020)
David Houston Jones, Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics (London: Routledge, 2022)
Christine Slobogin, ‘Dickie Orpen and the Visual Vulture of World War II plastic Surgery in Britain’ (PhD thesis), Birkbeck, University of London, 2021
D. W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality (London: Tavistock Publications, 1971)
Mary Flanagan, Critical Play: Radical Game Design (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009)
Richard B. Woodward, ‘Introduction’, in The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by Corinne Botz (New York: The Monacelli Press, 2004)
Alexis Lussier, ‘Malaise dans la demeure’, Ciel variable (special issue: Forensique) 93 (2013): 29–34
Katherine Biber, In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence (London: Routledge, 2018)
FURTHER READING
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, ‘The Woman Who Invented Forensics Training with Doll Houses’, The New Yorker, 5 November 2017
Barbara Browning, The Miniaturists (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022)
Joan Kee and Emanuele Lugli, ‘Scale and Size: An introduction’, Art History 38.2 (2015): 250–66
This season of ‘Drawing Blood’ was funded in part by the Association for Art History.
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Audio postproduction by Sias Merkling
‘Drawing Blood’ cover art © Emma Merkling
All audio and content © Emma Merkling and Christy Slobogin
Intro music: ‘There Will Be Blood’ by Kim Petras, © BunHead Records 2019. We’re still trying to get hold of permissions for this song – Kim Petras text us back!!
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