ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Anatomical Models in Artistic Training: Sculpted, Living, and Dissected
part II|72 pages
Visual Models in Anatomy and Medicine: Illustralive, Radiographic, and Sculptural
part III|44 pages
Modeling Public Health: The Healthy Body in Art and Propaganda
part IV|50 pages
Modeling Disease: The Pathologized Body in Art and Medicine