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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Models and Modeling in Art, Anatomy, and Medicine [Andrew Graciano]
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 [Andrew Graciano]
2. Fabulations of the Flesh: Gé ricault and the Praxis of Art and Anatomy in France [Dorothy Johnson]
3. Grecian Theory at the Royal Academy of Arts: John Flaxman and the Pedagogy of Corporeal Representation [Josh Hainy]
Part II: Visual Models in Anatomy and Medicine: Illustrative, Radiographic, and Sculptural
4. The Brain in Text and Image: Reconfiguring Medical Knowledge in Late Eighteenth-Century Japan [Wei Yu Wayne Tan]
5. When Sight Penetrates the Body: The Use and Promotion of Stereoscopic Radiography in Britain, 1896-1918 [Antoine Gallay]
6. Art in the Service of Medical Education: The 1939 Birth Series and the Use of Sculpture to Teach the Process of Human Development from Fertilization through Delivery [Rose Holz]
Part III: Modeling Public Health: The Healthy Body in Art and Propaganda
7. Painting the Revolutionary Body: Public Health and the Remaking of Mexican History in the Murals of Diego Rivera [Niria Leyva-Gutierrez]
8. The Sick Man of Asia and the Anatomically Perfect Woman: Remodeling China's (Body) Image through the Visual Arts [Amanda Wangwright]
Part IV: Modeling Disease: The Pathologized Body in Art and Medicine
9. The Model Patient: Observation and Illustration at the Musé e Charcot [Natasha Ruiz-Gó mez]
10. The Fat Body as Anatomical and Medical Oddity: Lucian Freud's Paintings of Sue Tilley [Brittany Lockard]
