William Hunter And The Hunterian Museum In Glasgow 1807 2007

Author : Keppie Lawrence Keppie
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : ART
ISBN : 9781474469784

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William Hunter and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, 1807-2007 by Keppie Lawrence Keppie Pdf

This book describes the life and achievements of the eighteenth-century Scottish physician William Hunter and outlines the history of the Museum named after him. William Hunter built up a wide-ranging private collection at his home in London, encompassing not only anatomical and pathological specimens related to his medical work, but also books and manuscripts, coins and medals, natural history specimens and artworks. On his death in 1783 he bequeathed the collection to the University of Glasgow where he had long ago been a student, and money to construct a Museum which opened in 1807. The book utilises a wide range of source material, much of it previously unpublished, to tell the story of the Museum's development, the many subsequent additions to its holdings and, more recently, the construction of a new Hunterian Art Gallery which houses not only Hunter's own collection but also numerous works be James McNeill Whistler and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Museum is celebrating its bicentenary in 2007.There is a foreward contributed by Sir Kenneth Calman, Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, and formerly Government Chief Medical Officer and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham

Author : L. J. F. Keppie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Physicians
ISBN : 0748631852

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William Hunter and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, 1807-2007 by L. J. F. Keppie Pdf

In this work, Lawrence Keppie describes the life and achievements of the 18th century Scottish physician William Hunter and outlines the history of the museum named after him.

Author : Nick Pearce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351536929

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William Hunter's World by Nick Pearce Pdf

Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century, and the fact that his collection is the foundation of Scotland's oldest public museum, The Hunterian, until now there has been no comprehensive examination in a single volume of all his collections in their diversity. This volume restores Hunter to a rightful position of prominence among the medical men whose research and amassing of specimens transformed our understanding of the natural world and man's position within it. This volume comprises essays by international specialists and are as diverse as Hunter's collections themselves, dealing as they do with material that ranges from medical and scientific specimens, to painting, prints, books and manuscripts. The first sections focus upon Hunter's own collection and his response to it, while the final section contextualises Hunter within the wider sphere. A special feature of the volume is the inclusion of references to the Hunterian's web pages and on-line databases. These enable searches for items from Hunter's collections, both from his museum and library. Locating Hunter's collecting within the broader context of his age and environment, this book provides an original approach to a man and collection whose importance has yet to be comprehensively assessed.

Author : Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Helen McCormack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134767151

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William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds by Helen McCormack Pdf

The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant contribution to the history of collecting and the promotion of the fine arts in Britain in the eighteenth century. Born at the family home in East Calderwood, he matriculated at the University of Glasgow in 1731 and was greatly influenced by some of the most important philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746). He quickly abandoned his studies in theology for Medicine and, in 1740, left Scotland for London where he steadily acquired a reputation as an energetic and astute practitioner; he combined his working life as an anatomist successfully with a wide range of interests in natural history, including mineralogy, conchology, botany and ornithology; and in antiquities, books, medals and artefacts; in the fine arts, he worked with artists and dealers and came to own a number of beautiful oil paintings and volumes of extremely fine prints. He built an impressive school of anatomy and a museum which housed these substantial and important collections. William Hunter’s life and work is the subject of this book, a cultural-anthropological account of his influence and legacy as an anatomist, physician, collector, teacher and demonstrator. Combining Hunter’s lectures to students of anatomy with his teaching at the St Martin’s Lane Academy, his patronage of artists, such as Robert Edge Pine, George Stubbs and Johan Zoffany, and his associations with artists at the Royal Academy of Arts, the book positions Hunter at the very centre of artistic, scientific and cultural life in London during the period, presenting a sustained and critical account of the relationship between anatomy and artists over the course of the long eighteenth century.

Author : Jane Milosch,Nick Pearce
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781538127582

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Collecting and Provenance by Jane Milosch,Nick Pearce Pdf

The study of provenance—the history of the creation and ownership of an artefact, work of art, or specimen—provides insights into the history of taste and collecting, illuminating the social, economic, and historic trends in which an object was created and collected. It is as much a history of people as it is of objects, and its study often reveals intricate networks of relationships, patterns of activity and motivations. This book promotes the study of the history of collecting and collections in all their variety through the lens of provenance, and explores the subject as a cross-disciplinary activity. Perhaps for the first time in a publication, it draws on expertise ranging from art history and anthropology, to natural history and law, looking at periods from antiquity through the 18th century and the Holocaust era to the present, and materials from Europe and the Americas to China and the Pacific. The issues raised are wide-ranging, touching on aspects of authenticity, cultural meaning and material transformation and economic and commercial drivers, as well as collector and object biography. The book fills a gap in the study of collecting and provenance, taking the subject holistically and from multiple standpoints, better to reflect the widening interest in provenance from a range of disciplinary perspectives. This book will be a service to the field, from established scholars and museum professionals to students of collecting history, cultural heritage, and museum studies.

Author : Jon Mee,Matthew Sangster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108830201

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Institutions of Literature, 1700–1900 by Jon Mee,Matthew Sangster Pdf

This lively collection makes a compelling case for the importance of institutions in the production, reception, and meaning of literature.

Author : David J. Breeze,William S. Hanson
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789694512

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The Antonine Wall: Papers in Honour of Professor Lawrence Keppie by David J. Breeze,William S. Hanson Pdf

32 papers present research on the Antonine Wall in honour of Lawrence Keppie. Papers cover a wide variety of aspects: the environmental and prehistoric background; structure, planning and construction; military deployment; associated artefacts and inscriptions; logistics of supply; the people of the Wall, including womenfolk and children.

Author : Bernard E. Leake
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Geologists
ISBN : 1862393230

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The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer by Bernard E. Leake Pdf

Gregory's remarkable career and his scientific work are detailed and critically assessed. Accounts of his heroic 1893 expedition to the Rift Valley (a term he coined) in Kenya (now the Gregory Rift), his first crossing of Spitzbergen, and his resignation as Leader of the first British Antarctic Expedition of 1901, when racing to the Pole under Scott became the priority, draw on unpublished letters. While in Melbourne he published on mining geology and a series of geography textbooks. His 1901 Lake Eyre expedition in Central Australia initiated the phrase 'The Dead Heart of Australia' and controversy over the source of artesian water. In the Chair of Geology in Glasgow from 1904, he built up the largest first-year geology class in the UK, over 400 students. He worked in every field of geology and every continent except Antarctica. He was also involved with the search for a 'homeland' for the Jews in Libya and Angola. He shrewdly realized that Wegener's Continental Drift Theory erroneously supposed that the Pacific Ocean was wider than now before the Atlantic opened. This led to his influential rejection of Continental Drift. He drowned in Peru traversing the Andes having published over 30 books and nearly 400 articles.

Author : Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : David N. Livingstone,Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226487267

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Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science by David N. Livingstone,Charles W. J. Withers Pdf

Here, David Livingstone and Charles Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning authority, and identity.

Author : María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui
Publisher : Yc British Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : David Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N10242617

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The Hunterian museum ... Glasgow by David Murray Pdf

Author : Thomas F. Baskett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108421706

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Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology by Thomas F. Baskett Pdf

Presents biographical details of 391 eponyms and names in the field, along with the context and relevance of their contributions.

Author : William Hunter,Hunterian Museum (University of Glasgow)
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1346228000

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Catalogue of the Anatomical and Pathological Preparations of Dr. William Hunter by William Hunter,Hunterian Museum (University of Glasgow) Pdf

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