PROJECT REFERENCES > CONTEMPORARY & HISTORICAL ANATOMICAL ART
Popular and critical representations of the anatomical body:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/
http://streetanatomy.com/ Exquisite Bodies at the Wellcome Collection
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/10/in-the-19th-century-despite.php
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/
http://streetanatomy.com/ Exquisite Bodies at the Wellcome Collection
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/10/in-the-19th-century-despite.php
"In the 19th century, despite the best efforts of body snatchers, the demand from medical schools for fresh cadavers far outstripped the supply. One solution to this gruesome problem came in the form of lifelike wax models. These models often took the form of alluring female figures that could be stripped and split into different sections. Other models were more macabre, showing the body ravaged by 'social diseases' such as venereal disease, tuberculosis and alcohol and drug addiction."
Relevance: Outlines a rough history of pedagogical anatomical models and artifacts, illustrating the ways in which the body, our body, has been taught, explored and represented back to us.
