Body criticism : imaging the unseen in Enlightenment art and medicine
Barbara Maria Stafford, Miriam Ahmed (Book designer, Bookjacket designer)
A celebration of visual culture as well as a contribution to the history of the human body. It aims to explore the strategies developed in the 18th century for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. In the process it uncovers and analyzes a set of body metaphors
History
xxi, 587 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
9780262193047, 9780262691659, 0262193043, 0262691655
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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