Human anatomy : depicting the body from the Renaissance to today
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Human anatomy : depicting the body from the Renaissance to today
Thames & Hudson, 2006
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Note
"With 320 illustrations, 80 in colour"
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkable history of anatomical illustration from the Renaissance to the digital Visible Human project of today. Its survey of five and a half centuries of meticulous visual description by anatomists and artists will be a welcome addition to the libraries of artists, art students, doctors and anyone interested in the history of science.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Technologies of Anatomical Representation
- History of Anatomy
- Early Modern Era - Anatomical Dreamtime: Anatomical Primitives
- Cadavers at Play
- Anatomical Arts and Sciences
- Body Part as Body Art
- Show-off Cadavers
- 1680 - 1800: Getting Real: Monumental Books
- Beautiful Ugliness
- Another Reality
- Modern Times: Visible and Visionary: Dissection Scenes and Fancies
- Dreaming Art Anatomy
- The People's Anatomy
- Dreaming the Industrial Body
- Reuniting the Divided Self
- Visible Human.
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