The Anatomy Of A Museum

Author : Steven Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781119237044

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Written by a museum professional and based on a course taught for many years, The Anatomy of a Museum is an engaging and accessible volume that provides a unique insider’s guide to what museums are and how they operate. An insider’s view of the rarefied world of the museum that provides a refreshing and unique account of the reality of the workings of museum life The material has been successfully tested in a course that the author has taught for 14 years Miller has extensive experience at all levels of museum work, from painting walls for exhibitions to museum directorship Clearly and engagingly written, the book covers all the component parts and various disciplines of museum operations, and opinions and perspectives are drawn from a deep knowledge of the field Includes useful pedagogical material, including questions, discussion topics, and a range of anecdotes

Author : Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781780236049

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Anatomy Museum by Elizabeth Hallam Pdf

The wild success of the traveling Body Worlds exhibition is testimony to the powerful allure that human bodies can have when opened up for display in gallery spaces. But while anatomy museums have shown their visitors much about bodies, they themselves are something of an obscure phenomenon, with their incredible technological developments and complex uses of visual images and the flesh itself remaining largely under researched. This book investigates anatomy museums in Western settings, revealing how they have operated in the often passionate pursuit of knowledge that inspires both fascination and fear. Elizabeth Hallam explores these museums, past and present, showing how they display the human body—whether naked, stripped of skin, completely dissected, or rendered in the form of drawings, three-dimensional models, x-rays, or films. She identifies within anatomy museums a diverse array of related issues—from the representation of deceased bodies in art to the aesthetics of science, from body donation to techniques for preserving corpses and ritualized practices for disposing of the dead. Probing these matters through in-depth study, Anatomy Museum unearths a strange and compelling cultural history of the spaces human bodies are made to occupy when displayed after death.

Author : Steven Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781119237105

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The Anatomy of a Museum by Steven Miller Pdf

Written by a museum professional and based on a course taught for many years, The Anatomy of a Museum is an engaging and accessible volume that provides a unique insider’s guide to what museums are and how they operate. An insider’s view of the rarefied world of the museum that provides a refreshing and unique account of the reality of the workings of museum life The material has been successfully tested in a course that the author has taught for 14 years Miller has extensive experience at all levels of museum work, from painting walls for exhibitions to museum directorship Clearly and engagingly written, the book covers all the component parts and various disciplines of museum operations, and opinions and perspectives are drawn from a deep knowledge of the field Includes useful pedagogical material, including questions, discussion topics, and a range of anecdotes

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018954932

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Flesh and Bones. [The narrative of a Christmas collector for the poor.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : A. Kendra Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Penis
ISBN : 1939781264

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Literary Nonfiction. Lyric Essay. Museum Studies. Travel Writing. ANATOMY OF A MUSEUM visits the Icelandic Phallological Museum in its final months under the direction of its original collector, to trace how what started as a gag gift evolved over decades into a museum known around the world. By its own estimation, the Icelandic Phallological Museum is the only institution in the world to seek a collection of phallic specimens from every mammal species in one country and since the recent demise of a human donor, the collection is now complete. But for all its originality, the IPM proves to be an illuminating part of both long-standing museum traditions and the particular bloom of Icelandic institutions since the 1990s, demonstrating the island's uncanny knack of turning private collections into public museums."

Author : Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781861893758

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The Anatomy Museum by Elizabeth Hallam Pdf

Anatomy museums around the world showcase preserved corpses in service of education and medical advancement, but they are little-known and have been largely hidden from the public eye. Elizabeth Hallam here investigates the anatomy museum and how it reveals the fascination and fears that surround the dead body in Western societies. Hallam explores the history of these museums and how they operate in the current cultural environment. Their regulated access increasingly clashes with evolving public mores toward the exposed body, as demonstrated by the international popularity of the Body Worlds exhibition. The book examines such related topics as artistic works that employ the images of dead bodies and the larger ongoing debate over the disposal of corpses. Issues such as aesthetics and science, organ and body donations, and the dead body in Western religion and ritual are also discussed here in fascinating depth. The Anatomy Museum unearths a strange and compelling cultural history that investigates the ideas of preservation, human rituals of death, and the spaces that our bodies occupy in this life and beyond.

Author : Morbid Anatomy Museum,Joanna Ebenstein
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780500773260

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The Anatomical Venus by Morbid Anatomy Museum,Joanna Ebenstein Pdf

Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susini's Anatomical Venus (c. 1790), a perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges belief. It - or, better, she - was conceived of as a means to teach human anatomy without need for constant dissection, which was messy, ethically fraught and subject to quick decay. This life-sized wax woman is adorned with glass eyes and human hair and can be dismembered into dozens of parts revealing, at the final remove, a beatific foetus curled in her womb. Sister models soon appeared throughout Europe, where they not only instructed the specialist students, but also delighted the general public. Deftly crafted dissectable female wax models and slashed beauties of the world's anatomy museums and fairgrounds of the 18th and 19th centuries take centre stage in this disquieting volume. Since their creation in late 18th-century Florence, these wax women have seduced, intrigued and amazed. Today, they also confound, troubling the edges of our neat categorical divides: life and death, science and art, body and soul, effigy and pedagogy, spectacle and education, kitsch and art. Incisive commentary and captivating imagery reveal the evolution of these enigmatic sculptures from wax effigy to fetish figure and the embodiment of the uncanny.

Author : George Stubbs
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486140483

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The Anatomy of the Horse by George Stubbs Pdf

This masterpiece of animal anatomy contains 36 plates that reproduce Stubbs' etchings. Based on the artist's own dissections and outline views, the illustrations feature extensive explanatory text. Full reproduction of 1766 edition.

Author : María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui
Publisher : Yc British Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300236654

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William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum by María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui Pdf

"This publication accompanies the exhibitions William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum co-organized by The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, on view 27 September 2018-6 January, 2019, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, on view 14 February-20 May 2019."

Author : Rina Knoeff,Robert Zwijnenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317031932

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The Fate of Anatomical Collections by Rina Knoeff,Robert Zwijnenberg Pdf

Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as drawings, photographs, documents and archives relating to them. In many institutions these collections are well-preserved, but in others they are poorly maintained and rendered inaccessible to medical and other audiences. This volume explores the changing status of anatomical collections from the early modern period to date. It is argued that anatomical and pathological collections are medically relevant not only for future generations of medical faculty and future research, but they are also important in the history of medicine, the history of the institutions to which they belong, and to the wider understanding of the cultural history of the body. Moreover, anatomical collections are crucial to new scholarly inter-disciplinary studies that investigate the interaction between arts and sciences, especially medicine, and offer a venue for the study of interactions between anatomists, scientists, anatomical artists and other groups, as well as the display and presentation of natural history and medical cabinets. In considering the fate of anatomical collections - and the importance of the keeper’s decisions with respect to collections - this volume will make an important methodological contribution to the study of collections and to discussions on how to preserve universities’ academic heritage.

Author : Domenico Laurenza
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
ISBN : 9781588394569

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Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy by Domenico Laurenza Pdf

Known as the "century of anatomy," the 16th century in Italy saw an explosion of studies and treatises on the discipline. Medical science advanced at an unprecedented rate, and physicians published on anatomy as never before. Simultaneously, many of the period's most prominent artists--including Leonardo and Michelangelo in Florence, Raphael in Rome, and Rubens working in Italy--turned to the study of anatomy to inform their own drawings and sculptures, some by working directly with anatomists and helping to illustrate their discoveries. The result was a rich corpus of art objects detailing the workings of the human body with an accuracy never before attained. "Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy "examines this crossroads between art and science, showing how the attempt to depict bone structure, musculature, and our inner workings--both in drawings and in three dimensions--constituted an important step forward in how the body was represented in art. While already remarkable at the time of their original publication, the anatomical drawings by 16th-century masters have even foreshadowed developments in anatomic studies in modern times.

Author : Miruna Achim,Susan Deans-Smith,Sandra Rozental
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816539574

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Museum Matters by Miruna Achim,Susan Deans-Smith,Sandra Rozental Pdf

Museum Matters tells the story of Mexico's national collections through the trajectories of its objects. The essays in this book show the many ways in which things matter and affect how Mexico imagines its past, present, and future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Desecration by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jennifer Z. Paxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1787416399

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Anatomicum Activity Book by Jennifer Z. Paxton Pdf

Following the incredible Anatomicum, this activity book is bursting with fascinating facts and puzzles, perfect for budding artists and science enthusiasts. Activities include amazing mazes, mix-and-match brain-teasers, colouring, drawing and much much more. With pull-out pages, readers can easily tear out their creative masterpieces to proudly display.

Author : Thomas Bartholin
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9788763542593

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The Anatomy House in Copenhagen by Thomas Bartholin Pdf

While the dissection of bodies had already been allowed to form part of an education at European universities during the 1500s, an anatomical theatre was first established at the University of Copenhagen in 1644, that is to say, an auditorium where lectures on bodies could be held. In addition to serving the instruction of students and general research, it was here that professor of anatomy Thomas Bartholin demonstrated the existence of the thoracic duct and later the lymphatic vessels in a human being, an achievement bestowing immediate fame on Bartholin and resonating in learned circles throughout Europe. In 1662 Thomas Bartholin published A Short Description of the Anatomy House in Copenhagen. This book, which meticulously describes the layout of the Anatomy House together with the first eighteen years of its history, was composed in Latin, so that by this means it could make this institution known to an international public. These and other activities went on in the anatomical theatre until the great fire of 1728 in Copenhagen ravished it. Bartholin's publication survived, which in the narrower sense documents a part of the University's history and from a broader perspective gives an insight into the scientific ideal that provided the impetus behind anatomical studies in seventeenth-century Europe. Furnished with commentary by the editor Niels W. Bruun and an introduction by historian Morten Fink-Jensen, this first appearance of Bartholin's work in English, thus reaching a wider international audience, will undoubtedly consolidate its rightful position as an important contribution to the history of anatomical houses. The English translation was undertaken by Peter Fisher. The book contains 44 illustrations in colour and a revised critical edition of the Latin text by the editor.