| Description | This file includes extensive correspondence concerning the exhibition 'The Quick and the Dead', from 1998. It also includes press cuttings of exhibition reviews.
Of particular note:
-letter from Petherbridge to Claude Ritschard, undated, concerning the transfer of the exhibition to Geneva, and Petherbridge's opinion on changes to the exhibition items
-letter from Petherbridge to Claude Ritschard, dated 15 Feb 1998, concerning loan requests
-letter from Petherbridge to Cäsar Menz, Director of Musee d'art et d'histoire, dated 15 Jun 1998, outlining her reasons for not attending the Press View or opening of the exhibition, and other grievances regarding the exhibition, and exhibition catalogue
-letter from Cäsar Menz, Director of Musee d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, dated 17 Jul 1998, in reply to Petherbridge's letter dated 15 Jun 1998 (written in French)
-letter from Petherbridge to Susan Ferleger Brades, Hayward Gallery Director, dated 25 Jun 1998, concerning her disappointment over the Geneva exhibition, and her belief that the final exhibition was an infringement of her original concept
-correspondence between Petherbridge and Robert Andrew Dul, State Ethnographical Museum, Warsaw, dated 16-25 Sep 1998, concerning the exhibition in Geneva; his interest in showing the exhibition in Poland; and Petherbridge providing information on the location of items and collections in Poland that relate to the themes of art and anatomy
-draft of Petherbridge's catalogue essay translated into French for the publication: Petherbridge, D., Ritschard, C. and Carlino, A. (1998) Corps à vif : art et anatomie. Genève: Départment Municipal des Affaires Culturelles, with Petherbridge's notes and corrections on the translated text |
| Image Caption | Letter to Cäsar Menz, dated 15 Jun 1998, outlining her reasons for not attending the press view or opening of the exhibition, and other grievances regarding the exhibition, and exhibition catalogue |