Queer anatomies : aesthetics and desire in the anatomical image, 1700-1900 / Michael Sappol.
- Sappol, Michael
- Date:
- 2024
- Books
About this work
Description
"Offering essayistic reflection and close readings of key images and texts - including works by Gautier d'Agoty, William Cheselden, Joseph Maclise and many others - Queer Anatomies places medical history, connoisseurship, queer studies, and art history into dialog with each other, and sheds new light on the history of anatomical illustration and the body. The book contains full-colour reproductions of a range of drawings - from renderings of dead and dissected bodies, penises, vaginas, rectums, hands, and skin, to images of male viewers gazing upon drawings, paintings, prints and sculptures of the naked body."-- Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024
Physical description
xix, 260 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
Contents
Part one: The unbearable queerness of anatomy. Introduction -- Theory -- Objects -- Part two: Connoisseurship, taste and "the beauty of the plate". Gautier -- Cheselden -- Between men -- Part three: "Overshadowed by the artist": Mr Joseph Maclise's queer anatomy. Prologue: Nicolas-Henri Jacob -- Joseph Maclise.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineDA.ALOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9781350400863
- 1350400866