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Human Anatomy: Illustrating the Body Benjamin A. Rifkin

Human Anatomy: Illustrating the Body By Benjamin A. Rifkin

Human Anatomy: Illustrating the Body by Benjamin A. Rifkin

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Chronicles the history of anatomical illustration from the Renaissance to the digital Visible Human project. This survey of five and a half centuries of visual description by anatomists and artists is useful to the artists, art students, doctors and those interested in the history of science.

Human Anatomy: Illustrating the Body Summary

Human Anatomy: Illustrating the Body by Benjamin A. Rifkin

This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkable history of anatomical illustration from the Renaissance to the digital Visible Human project of today. Its survey of five and a half centuries of meticulous visual description by anatomists and artists will be a welcome addition to the libraries of artists, art students, doctors and anyone interested in the history of science.

About Benjamin A. Rifkin

Benjamin Rifkin lives and works in New York City as a private art dealer specializing in Old Master paintings, drawings and sculpture. Michael J. Ackerman is Assistant Director for High Performance Computing and Communications at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Judy Folkenberg is a freelance writer. She is also a book artist, and binds and makes books by hand.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Technologies of Anatomical Representation; History of Anatomy; Early Modern Era - Anatomical Dreamtime: Anatomical Primitives; Cadavers at Play; Anatomical Arts and Sciences; Body Part as Body Art; Show-off Cadavers; 1680 - 1800: Getting Real: Monumental Books; Beautiful Ugliness; Another Reality; Modern Times: Visible and Visionary: Dissection Scenes and Fancies; Dreaming Art Anatomy; The People's Anatomy; Dreaming the Industrial Body; Reuniting the Divided Self; Visible Human.

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GOR004493879
9780500512999
050051299X
Human Anatomy: Illustrating the Body by Benjamin A. Rifkin
Benjamin A. Rifkin
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
2005-12-31
344
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