The Anatomy Of A Museum
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The Anatomy Of A Museum
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Author : Steven Miller
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-07-18
The Anatomy Of A Museum written by Steven Miller and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-18 with Art categories.
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
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.
William Hunter And The Anatomy Of The Modern Museum
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Author : María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui
language : en
Publisher: Yc British Art
Release Date : 2018
William Hunter And The Anatomy Of The Modern Museum written by María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui and has been published by Yc British Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Art categories.
"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."
The Anatomical Venus
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Author : Morbid Anatomy Museum
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 2016-05-16
The Anatomical Venus written by Morbid Anatomy Museum and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-16 with Science categories.
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.
The Fate Of Anatomical Collections
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Author : Rina Knoeff
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
The Fate Of Anatomical Collections written by Rina Knoeff and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with History categories.
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.
Anatomy Of A Museum
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Author : A. Kendra Greene
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-04
Anatomy Of A Museum written by A. Kendra Greene and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04 with categories.
With charm, intelligence, and humor this essay traces the history of the Icelandic Phallological Museum and visits the museum in its final months under the direction of the original collector. 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. The departure of a human donor completed the display. In this essay, readers will discover how a gag gift evolved over decades into a museum that is known around the world.
Flesh And Bones The Narrative Of A Christmas Collector For The Poor
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
Flesh And Bones The Narrative Of A Christmas Collector For The Poor written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with categories.
Forces Of Form
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Author : Laurens de Rooy
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2009
Forces Of Form written by Laurens de Rooy and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
Established around the private collections of Gerardus Vrolik (1775–1859) and his son Willem (1801–63), the Vrolik Musuem in Amsterdam has since its founding in the nineteenth century been one of the most admired expositions of anatomy in all of Europe. Scientists and physicians from all over the world travel to gaze upon the five thousand specimens of human and animal anatomy, embryology, pathology, and congenital anomalies housed at the museum. Forces of Form brings this collection back into the limelight, exploring the museum’s rich history and displaying in color illustrations 150 of the museum’s most fascinating specimens.
The Anatomy Museum
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Author : Elizabeth Hallam
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2008
The 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 2008 with History categories.
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.
Anatomy Of A Museum
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Author : A. Kendra Greene
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Anatomy Of A Museum written by A. Kendra Greene and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Penis categories.
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."