Body criticism : imaging the unseen in Enlightenment art and medicine / Barbara Maria Stafford
1991, First Edition. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. Near fine cloth copy in a finedust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #412225
ISBN: 0262193043
Physical description; xxi, 587 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 534-573) and index. Contents; 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. Subjects; 1700-1799. 18th century. Body image History 18th century. Anatomy, Artistic History 18th century. Medicine and art History 18th century. Enlightenment (18th-century western movement). Body image : cultural history.
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