Entrée principale:

Stafford, Barbara Maria, 1941-

Titre et auteur:

Body criticism : imaging the unseen in Enlightenment art and medicine / Barbara Maria Stafford.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1991.

Description:

xxi, 587 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 534-573) and index.
Introduction: the visualization of knowledge. Somatic metaphors -- Antinomies -- Hunting for method -- Surface or depth -- Picture and text. 1. Dissecting. Searching operations -- Physiognomics, or corporeal connoisseurship -- The calculation of incongruity -- Pathognomics, or the pursuit of looks. 2. Abstracting. Systems of epitomization -- Wounds of experience -- Distracting styles of pain -- Patterns of interiority. 3. Conceiving. Barbarisms, or strangeness incarnate -- "Brain-born images" -- Breeding for difference -- Grotesques, or ars combinatoria. 4. Marking. Contagious pointillism -- Stains of desire -- "Like a shadow on the skin" -- Romantic misfits. 5. Magnifying. Microscope seers -- Visual quackery -- Dream projections -- Free to be false. 6. Sensing. A finer touch -- Mental meteorology -- Fluid phantoms -- Communicate feelings. Conclusion: the aesthetics of almost.
Dust jacket.

Résumé:

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.

ISBN:

0262193043
9780262193047
0262691655
9780262691659

Sujet:

Body image History 18th century.
Anatomy, Artistic History 18th century.
Medicine and art History 18th century.
Enlightenment.
Medicine History 18th century.
Anatomy, Artistic history
Body Image
History, 18th Century
Medicine in the Arts.
Image du corps Histoire 18e siècle.
Anatomie artistique Histoire 18e siècle.
Médecine et art Histoire 18e siècle.
Siècle des Lumières.
Médecine Histoire 18e siècle.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
Medicine
Anatomy, Artistic
Body image
Medicine and art
Het Onzienlijke.
Beeldende kunsten.
Geneeskunde.
Visualisatie.
Menselijk lichaam.
Humans Body Philosophy History

Classification/genre:

History

Vedettes secondaires:

Ahmed, Miriam, book designer, bookjacket designer.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 72671
Cote: ID:92-B1324
Statut: Disponible