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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"With 320 illustrations, 80 in colour"
Includes index
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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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