This book expands the art historical perspective on arts 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.
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| Acknowledgements |
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| About the Contributors |
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| Prologue: Modeling the Modern Body |
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| Introduction: Models and Modeling in Art, Anatomy, and Medicine |
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PART I ANATOMICAL MODELS IN ARTISTIC TRAINING: SCULPTED, LIVING, AND DISSECTED |
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1 Anatomy in the Drawing Room at Felix Meritis Maatschappij in Amsterdam: Between Skin and Bones, Theory and Practice |
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2 Fabulations of the Flesh: Gericault and the Praxis of Art and Anatomy in France |
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3 Grecian Theory at the Royal Academy: John Flaxman and the Pedagogy of Corporeal Representation |
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PART II VISUAL MODELS IN ANATOMY AND MEDICINE: ILLUSTRATIVE, RADIOGRAPHIC, AND SCULPTURAL |
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4 The Brain in Text and in Image: Reconfiguring Medical Knowledge in Late Eighteenth-Century Japan |
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5 When Sight Penetrates the Body: The Use and Promotion of Stereoscopic Radiography in Britain, 1896-1918 |
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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 |
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PART III MODELING PUBLIC HEALTH: THE HEALTHY BODY IN ART AND PROPAGANDA |
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7 Painting the Revolutionary Body: Anatomy and the Remaking of Mexican History in the Murals of Diego Rivera |
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8 The Sick Man of Asia and the Anatomically Perfect Woman: Remodeling Republican China's (Body) Image through the Visual Arts |
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PART IV MODELING DISEASE: THE PATHOLOGIZED BODY IN ART AND MEDICINE |
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9 The Model Patient: Observation and Illustration at the Musee Charcot |
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10 The Fat Body as Anatomical and Medical Oddity: Lucian Freud's Paintings of Sue Tilley |
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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 Carolinas School of Visual Art and Design.
