The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy - Brossura

Hayward Gallery; South Bank Centre; Royal College Of Art (Great Britain); Mead Gallery; Leeds (England) City Art Gallery

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ISBN 10: 0520217381 ISBN 13: 9780520217386

Casa editrice: California Academy of Sciences, 1998

Riassunto

The human body has long been central to Western art, and in order to represent the body in all its manifestations many artists have studied anatomy: dissecting the dead to better depict the living.The Quick and the Dead focuses on a range of artists, among them Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Albrecht Dürer, William Hogarth, George Stubbs, Théodore Géricault, Kiki Smith, Joel-Peter Witkin, and Cindy Sherman to show the great richness and complexity that can result when art and science intersect. The drawings, prints, photographs, and objects in this book span five centuries and mark numerous cultural shifts, yet their imagery is as powerful today as when it was created.

Bodily representation has shadowed Western art since the High Renaissance, particularly in the form of atlases of anatomical prints, detailed drawings, and wax cadavers used for teaching purposes. Studying anatomy was deemed so essential that it was part of the instruction program in the earliest Italian academies. Now contemporary artists interested in cultural constuctions of the body are reinvigorating the subject, with the fragmentation of human form being a prime concern.

Since 1858, Gray's Anatomy has served to legitimize notions of "serious" science unchallenged by the frivolity of art. But in recent years a kind of rapprochement between medical history and cultural theory has occurred, and new medical technologies have become a wellspring for artists as well as for doctors. As The Quick and the Dead makes clear, the human bodysymbolic and intimate, material and sacredis a vital cultural resource and a site where various social constituencies find relevant meaning.

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L'autore:

Deanna Petherbridge is Professor of Drawing at the Royal College of Art in London and Curator of the National Touring Exhibition from the Hayward Gallery exhibition ofThe Quick and the Dead. Ludmilla Jordanova is Professor in the School of World Art Studies and Museology at the University of East Anglia.

Product Description:

Book by Petherbridge Deanna Jordanova Ludmilla

Su questa edizione

• Editore: California Academy of Sciences
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520217381
• ISBN 13: 9780520217386
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 120
• Redattore: Petherbridge Deanna, Jordanova Ludmilla J.