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Title Visualizing the body in art, anatomy, and medicine since 1800 : models and modeling / edited by Andrew Graciano
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and color)
Series Science and the arts since 1750
Science and the arts since 1750.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; About the Contributors; Prologue: Modeling the Modern Body; Introduction: Models and Modeling in Art, Anatomy, and Medicine; Part I: Anatomical Models in Artistic Training: Sculpted, Living, and Dissected; 1 Anatomy in the Drawing Room at Felix Meritis Maatschappij in Amsterdam: Between Skin and Bones, Theory and Practice; 2 Fabulations of the Flesh: Géricault and the Praxis of Art and Anatomy in France
3 Grecian Theory at the Royal Academy: John Flaxman and the Pedagogy of Corporeal Representation; Part II: Visual Models in Anatomy and Medicine: Illustrative, Radiographic, and Sculptural; 4 The Brain in Text and in Image: Reconfiguring Medical Knowledge in Late Eighteenth-Century Japan; 5 When Sight Penetrates the Body: The Use and Promotion of Stereoscopic Radiography in Britain, 1896-1918; 6 Art in the Service of Medical Education: The 1939 Dickinson-Belskie Birth Series and the Use of Sculpture to Teach the Process of Human Development from Fertilization through Delivery
Part III: Modeling Public Health: The Healthy Body in Art and Propaganda; 7 Painting the Revolutionary Body: Anatomy and the Remaking of Mexican History in the Murals of Diego Rivera; 8 The Sick Man of Asia and the Anatomically Perfect Woman: Remodeling Republican China's (Body) Image through the Visual Arts; Part IV: Modeling Disease: The Pathologized Body in Art and Medicine; 9 The Model Patient: Observation and Illustration at the Musée Charcot; 10 The Fat Body as Anatomical and Medical Oddity: Lucian Freud's Paintings of Sue Tilley; Index
Summary This book expands the art historical perspective on art's connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies from various methodological perspectives. The contributors focus on the common visual and bodily nature of (figural) art, anatomy, and medicine around the central concept of modeling (posing, exemplifying and fabricating). Topics covered include the role of anatomical study in artistic training, the importance of art and visual literacy in anatomical/medical training and in the dissemination (via models) of medical knowledge/information, and artistic representations of the medical body in the contexts of public health and propaganda
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Andrew Graciano is Professor of Art History and the Director of Graduate Studies (Studio Art, Media Arts, Art History, and Art Education) at the University of South Carolina's School of Visual Art and Design
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Subject Human anatomy -- Models -- History
Medicine -- History.
Anatomy, Artistic -- history
Medicine in the Arts -- history
History, Modern 1601-
History of Medicine
history of medicine.
MEDICAL -- Anatomy.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
ART -- History -- General.
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- Human Figure.
MEDICAL -- History.
Human anatomy -- Models
Medicine
Körper Motiv
Anatomie
Kunst
Medizin
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Graciano, Andrew, editor
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