An edition of Body criticism (1991)
Body criticism
imaging the unseen in Enlightenment art and medicine
By Barbara Maria Stafford
Publish Date
1991
Publisher
MIT Press
Language
eng
Pages
587
Description:
A celebration of visual culture as well as a contribution to the history of the human body. It aims to explore the strategies developed in the 18th century for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. In the process it uncovers and analyzes a set of body metaphors.
subjects: Medicine and art, Body image, Anatomy, Artistic, Artistic Anatomy, Enlightenment, History, Medicine in the Arts, Médecine et art, Menselijk lichaam, Image du corps, Anatomie artistique, Siècle des lumières, Geneeskunde, Visualisatie, History, 18th Century, Histoire, Het Onzienlijke, Beeldende kunsten, Siecle des lumieres, Medecine et art, Medicine in Art
Times: 18th century