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Museum Bodies
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Author : Helen Rees Leahy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Museum Bodies written by Helen Rees Leahy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Art categories.
Museum Bodies provides an account of how museums have staged, prescribed and accommodated a repertoire of bodily practices, from their emergence in the eighteenth century to the present day. As long as museums have existed, their visitors have been scrutinised, both formally and informally, and their behaviour calibrated as a register of cognitive receptivity and cultural competence. Yet there has been little sustained theoretical or practical attention given to the visitors' embodied encounter with the museum. In Museum Bodies Helen Rees Leahy discusses the politics and practice of visitor studies, and the differentiation and exclusion of certain bodies on the basis of, for example, age, gender, educational attainment, ethnicity and disability. At a time when museums are more than ever concerned with size, demographic mix and the diversity of their audiences, as well as with the ways in which visitors engage with and respond to institutional space and content, this wide-ranging study of visitors' embodied experience of the museum is long overdue.
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Author : Dr Helen Rees Leahy
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Museum Bodies written by Dr Helen Rees Leahy and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Art categories.
Museum Bodies provides an account of how museums have staged, prescribed and accommodated a repertoire of bodily practices, from their emergence in the eighteenth century to the present day. As long as museums have existed, their visitors have been scrutinised, both formally and informally, and their behaviour calibrated as a register of cognitive receptivity and cultural competence. Yet there has been little sustained theoretical or practical attention given to the visitors' embodied encounter with the museum. In Museum Bodies Helen Rees Leahy discusses the politics and practice of visitor studies, and the differentiation and exclusion of certain bodies on the basis of, for example, age, gender, educational attainment, ethnicity and disability. At a time when museums are more than ever concerned with size, demographic mix and the diversity of their audiences, as well as with the ways in which visitors engage with and respond to institutional space and content, this wide-ranging study of visitors' embodied experience of the museum is long overdue.
Anatomy Museum
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Author : Elizabeth Hallam
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2016-06-15
Anatomy Museum written by Elizabeth Hallam and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-15 with Medical categories.
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.
Bespoke Bodies
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Author : Amanda Hawkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-15
Bespoke Bodies written by Amanda Hawkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with categories.
Assembling Bodies
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Author : Anita Herle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Assembling Bodies written by Anita Herle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Human body categories.
How do we know and experience our bodies? How does the way we understand the human body reflect and influence our relations with others? Assembling Bodies reveals and challenges preconceived notions of the human body by exploring some of the different ways that bodies are imagined and understood in the arts, social and bio-medical sciences. The displays are drawn from the extraordinarily rich and diverse collections within the Museum, the University and the Colleges, complemented by external loans and exciting contemporary artworks. They include Bronze Age burials and Pacific funerary effigies, classical sculpture and kinetic artworks, medieval manuscripts and scientific instruments, anatomical drawings and bio-medical equipment. Moving through this diverse gathering of objects, you see how different techniques for making bodies visible bring new and often unexpected forms into focus. - Exhibition website.
Phantom Bodies
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Author : Mark Scala
language : en
Publisher: In Collaboration with Frist Ar
Release Date : 2015
Phantom Bodies written by Mark Scala and has been published by In Collaboration with Frist Ar this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Art categories.
The third in a series of exhibition catalogs on the human body in contemporary art
Brain Of The Earth S Body
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Author : Donald Preziosi
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2003
Brain Of The Earth S Body written by Donald Preziosi and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Art categories.
What begins as a meditation on "the museum" by one of the world's leading art historians becomes, in this book, a far-reaching critical examination of how art history and museums have guided and controlled not only the way we look at art but the ways in which we understand modernity itself. Originally delivered as the 2001 Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts at Oxford University, the book makes its deeply complex argument remarkably accessible and powerfully clear. Concentrating on a period from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, Donald Preziosi presents case studies of major institutions that, he argues, have defined--and are still defining--the possible limits of museological and art historical theory and practice. These include Sir John Soane's Museum in London, preserved in its 1837 state; the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851; and four museums founded by Europeans in Egypt in the late nineteenth century, which divided up that country's history into "ethnically marked" aesthetic hierarchies and genealogies that accorded with Europe's construction of itself as the present of the world's past, and the "brain of the earth's body." Through this epistemological and institutional archaeology, Preziosi unearths the outlines of the more radical Enlightenment project that academic art history, professional museology, and art criticism have rendered marginal or invisible. Finally, he sketches a new theory about art, artifice, and visual signification in the cracks and around the margins of the "secular theologisms" of the globalized imperial capital called modernity. Addressed equally to the theoretical and philosophical foundations of art history,museology, history, and anthropology, this book goes to the heart of recent debates about race, ethnicity, nationality, colonialism, and multiculturalisms--and to the very foundations of modernity and modern modes of knowledge produ
Spectacular Bodies
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Author : Martin Kemp
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Spectacular Bodies written by Martin Kemp and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Art categories.
"Illustrated and with essays by Martin Kemp, Spectacular Bodies reveals a new way of seeing ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.
Medieval Bodies
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Author : Jack Hartnell
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2018-03-29
Medieval Bodies written by Jack Hartnell and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-29 with History categories.
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe - revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time in the process. Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.
Bog Bodies
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Author : Melanie Giles
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-15
Bog Bodies written by Melanie Giles and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with Social Science categories.
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The ‘bog bodies’ of north-western Europe have captured the imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come face-to-face with individuals from the past. Their exceptional preservation permits us to examine minute details of their lives and deaths, making us reflect poignantly on our own mortality. But, as this book argues, the bodies must be resituated within a turbulent world of endemic violence and change. Reinterpreting the latest continental research and new discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking ‘cold case’ forensic study of Worsley Man, Manchester Museum’s ‘bog head’, it brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. The book also argues that these remains do not just pose practical conservation problems but also philosophical dilemmas, compounded by the critical debate on if – and how – they should be displayed.