Violence and the genesis of the anatomical image /

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Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel life itself through the membranes of a heart belonging to a man who had just been executed, a comment that appears near the woodcut of a person being dis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: San Juan, Rose Marie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Anatomy, Artistic > History.
Violence in art.
Anatomie artistique > Histoire.
Violence dans l'art.
ART / History / Renaissance.
Anna Morandi.
Artificial Intelligence.
Artificial Life.
Ex Machina.
Gaetano Zumbo.
Juan de Valverde.
Vesalius.
Violence.
cannibalism.
histories of Eve.
image of violence.
print and anatomy.
transformation.
wax sculpture.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Violence and the Image in Transition
  • 1. Bodily Animation: Bones, Skulls, and Skeletons
  • 2. Bodily Mutation: From Muscles to Flesh and Blood
  • 3. Bones in Transit, Flesh in Shreds: Anatomy and the New World Cannibal
  • 4. Between Face and Brain: Recalibrating the Head
  • 5. The Rib Within: The Wax Model and the Violence of Embodiment
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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