Visualizing the Body in Art, Anatomy, and Medicine since 1800: Models and Modeling (Science and the Arts since 1750)

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. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Table of Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 16 About the Contributors......Page 18 Prologue: Modeling the Modern Body......Page 22 Introduction: Models and Modeling in Art, Anatomy, and Medicine......Page 38 Part I: Anatomical Models in Artistic Training: Sculpted, Living, and Dissected......Page 50 1 Anatomy in the Drawing Room at Felix Meritis Maatschappij in Amsterdam: Between Skin and Bones, Theory and Practice......Page 52 2 Fabulations of the Flesh: Géricault and the Praxis of Art and Anatomy in France......Page 76 3 Grecian Theory at the Royal Academy: John Flaxman and the Pedagogy of Corporeal Representation......Page 98 Part II: Visual Models in Anatomy and Medicine: Illustrative, Radiographic, and Sculptural......Page 122 4 The Brain in Text and in Image: Reconfiguring Medical Knowledge in Late Eighteenth-Century Japan......Page 124 5 When Sight Penetrates the Body: The Use and Promotion of Stereoscopic Radiography in Britain, 1896–1918......Page 142 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......Page 166 Part III: Modeling Public Health: The Healthy Body in Art and Propaganda......Page 210 7 Painting the Revolutionary Body: Anatomy and the Remaking of Mexican History in the Murals of Diego Rivera......Page 212 8 The Sick Man of Asia and the Anatomically Perfect Woman: Remodeling Republican China’s (Body) Image through the Visual Arts......Page 234 Part IV: Modeling Disease: The Pathologized Body in Art and Medicine......Page 254 9 The Model Patient: Observation and Illustration at the Musée Charcot......Page 256 10 The Fat Body as Anatomical and Medical Oddity: Lucian Freud’s Paintings of Sue Tilley......Page 286 Index......Page 304