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Book Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting

Download or read book Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting written by Sir Charles Bell and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First edition of Bell's (1774-1842) important study of the anatomy and physiology of facial expression. The expressions, attitudes, and movements of the human body had always interested scientists as well as artists, but never before had thy been treated with such depth and conciseness. The work reflects Bell's brilliance as both artist and anatomist, and inspired Darwin's own Expression of the Emotions (1872), which he described Bell as one of the founders of the subject as a branch of science. Reyolds, 404, Wellcome, II, p.135, B & L Rootenberg,1987

Book The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World

Download or read book The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World written by Laura White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though popular opinion would have us see Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There as whimsical, nonsensical, and thoroughly enjoyable stories told mostly for children; contemporary research has shown us there is a vastly greater depth to the stories than would been seen at first glance. Building on the now popular idea amongst Alice enthusiasts, that the Alice books - at heart - were intended for adults as well as children, Laura White takes current research in a new, fascinating direction. During the Victorian era of the book’s original publication, ideas about nature and our relation to nature were changing drastically. The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World argues that Lewis Carroll used the book’s charm, wit, and often puzzling conclusions to counter the emerging tendencies of the time which favored Darwinism and theories of evolution and challenged the then-conventional thinking of the relationship between mankind and nature. Though a scientist and ardent student of nature himself, Carroll used his famously playful language, fantastic worlds and brilliant, often impossible characters to support more the traditional, Christian ideology of the time in which mankind holds absolute sovereignty over animals and nature.

Book The Pointe of the Pen

Download or read book The Pointe of the Pen written by Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally a courtly art, ballet experienced dramatic evolution (but never, significantly, the prospect of extinction) as attitudes toward courtliness itself shifted in the aftermath of the French Revolution. As a result, it afforded a valuable model to poets who, like Wordsworth and his successors, aspired to make the traditionally codified, formal, and, to some degree, aristocratic art of poetry compatible with "the very language of men" and, therefore, relevant to a new class of readers. Moreover, as a model, ballet was visible as well as valuable. Dance historians recount the extraordinary popularity of ballet and its practitioners in the nineteenth century, and 'The Pointe of the Pen' challenges literary historians' assertions - sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit - that writers were immune to the balletomania that shaped both Romantic and Victorian England, as well as Europe more broadly. The book draws on both primary documents (such as dance treatises and performance reviews) and scholarly histories of dance to describe the ways in which ballet's unique culture and aesthetic manifest in the forms, images, and ideologies of significant poems by Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Barrett Browning."--taken from back cover.

Book Body

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Daniels
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781426204494
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Body written by Patricia Daniels and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human body.

Book Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy

Download or read book Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy written by Domenico Laurenza and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the "century of anatomy," the 16th century in Italy saw an explosion of studies and treatises on the discipline. Medical science advanced at an unprecedented rate, and physicians published on anatomy as never before. Simultaneously, many of the period's most prominent artists--including Leonardo and Michelangelo in Florence, Raphael in Rome, and Rubens working in Italy--turned to the study of anatomy to inform their own drawings and sculptures, some by working directly with anatomists and helping to illustrate their discoveries. The result was a rich corpus of art objects detailing the workings of the human body with an accuracy never before attained. "Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy "examines this crossroads between art and science, showing how the attempt to depict bone structure, musculature, and our inner workings--both in drawings and in three dimensions--constituted an important step forward in how the body was represented in art. While already remarkable at the time of their original publication, the anatomical drawings by 16th-century masters have even foreshadowed developments in anatomic studies in modern times.

Book Anatomy and Drawing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victor Perard
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-03-08
  • ISBN : 0486141772
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Anatomy and Drawing written by Victor Perard and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellent line drawings and annotations of anatomical structure provide the beginning artist with just about everything one needs to know about drawing all parts of the human anatomy. 179 black-and-white illustrations.

Book Neuro

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nikolas Rose
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2013-02-21
  • ISBN : 1400846331
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Neuro written by Nikolas Rose and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the new brain sciences are transforming our understanding of what it means to be human The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many now believe that the brain is what makes us human, and it seems that neuroscientists are poised to become the new experts in the management of human conduct. Neuro describes the key developments—theoretical, technological, economic, and biopolitical—that have enabled the neurosciences to gain such traction outside the laboratory. It explores the ways neurobiological conceptions of personhood are influencing everything from child rearing to criminal justice, and are transforming the ways we "know ourselves" as human beings. In this emerging neuro-ontology, we are not "determined" by our neurobiology: on the contrary, it appears that we can and should seek to improve ourselves by understanding and acting on our brains. Neuro examines the implications of this emerging trend, weighing the promises against the perils, and evaluating some widely held concerns about a neurobiological "colonization" of the social and human sciences. Despite identifying many exaggerated claims and premature promises, Neuro argues that the openness provided by the new styles of thought taking shape in neuroscience, with its contemporary conceptions of the neuromolecular, plastic, and social brain, could make possible a new and productive engagement between the social and brain sciences. Copyright note: Reproduction, including downloading of Joan Miro works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Book David Wilkie

Download or read book David Wilkie written by Nicholas Tromans and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Lewis Krimmel

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  • Author : Milo M. Naeve
  • Publisher : Associated University Presse
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780874132328
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book John Lewis Krimmel written by Milo M. Naeve and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1987 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lewis Krimmel was the first professional artist in the United States to base his reputation on the genre subject. The author's study documents the artist's career from three points of view: Krimmel's life in Europe and the United States from his birth in 1786 to his drowning in 1821; an analysis of his surviving works; and an interpretation of his relationship to contemporary American esthetic and intellectual movements. American Art Series. Illustrated.

Book Medicine and the Five Senses

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  • Author : William F. Bynum
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1993-02-26
  • ISBN : 9780521361149
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Medicine and the Five Senses written by William F. Bynum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Greece to the CAT scanner, these essays examine the 'education of the senses' in medical diagnosis and treatment.

Book Hysteria Beyond Freud

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  • Author : Sander L. Gilman
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-03-29
  • ISBN : 0520309936
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Hysteria Beyond Freud written by Sander L. Gilman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing, they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we understand the mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Book Painting Out of the Ordinary

    Book Details:
  • Author : David H. Solkin
  • Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Painting Out of the Ordinary written by David H. Solkin and published by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its plethora of illustrations, many of works published here for the first time, 'Painting Out of the Ordinary' will be compulsory reading for anyone interested in British art and society of the Romantic era.

Book The Living History of Medicine

Download or read book The Living History of Medicine written by Dr Patrick Treacy and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of medicine is a living one and involves much more than reflecting on the battles that have been won or lost in the ever-changing struggle against disease. The living history really lies within man himself and too often the human side of this story is neglected. As doctors, we have been trained to focus on the signs of disease and consequently, we pay little attention to the people who discovered them. When we read in our pathology texts about the interesting triad of defects in an illness such as Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, we tend to forget about the doctors who faced great personal hardships to bring us the information we now use to treat the disorder. Dr Treacy is recognised as one of the most influential aesthetic practitioners in the world. He was awarded ‘Top Aesthetic Practitioner in the World’ (2019) and ‘Doctor of the Year’ UK & Ireland (2019). In this fascinating book, he takes us on a journey with Osler’s famed ‘Goddess of Medicine’ and explains how she is continually on the move, fleeing from battles, tyranny, and oppression, seeking to find a home where man can have study pathology in peace. She has moved from Edinburgh to Dublin, from London to Vienna, from Berlin to Maryland, then onwards to California to guide doctors in the wonders of new technologies, translating the genetic blueprint, manipulating defects in the data code of our existence and help us all fight the more complex diseases like the coronaviruses of the new millennium.

Book Seeing the Insane

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sander L. Gilman
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 080327064X
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Seeing the Insane written by Sander L. Gilman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing the Insane is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has both reflected and shaped the perception and treatment of the mentally disturbed.

Book Tribute to Wilkie

Download or read book Tribute to Wilkie written by Lindsay Errington and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Suffering and Sentiment in Romantic Military Art

Download or read book Suffering and Sentiment in Romantic Military Art written by Philip Shaw and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a moving intervention into Romantic-era depictions of the dead and wounded, Philip Shaw's timely study directs our gaze to the neglected figure of the common soldier. He examines a wide range of print and visual media, including paintings, political prose, anti-war poetry, early photographs, and the letters and journals of soldiers and surgeons, uncovering a history of changing attitudes that qualify notions of suffering on and off the battlefield as noble or heroic.

Book Animal Drawing

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  • Author : Charles Knight
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2013-04-09
  • ISBN : 0486318737
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Animal Drawing written by Charles Knight and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of animal portraiture presents an extensive course in creating lifelike drawings of wild and domestic creatures. Subjects include animal musculature, bone structure, psychology, movements, habits, and habitats. 123 illustrations.