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Spectacular bodies : the art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now / [curated by] Martin Kemp, Marina Wallace.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Corporate Author:	Hayward Gallery
Other Authors:	Kemp, Martin, Wallace, Marina
Other title:	Art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Los Angeles : Hayward Gallery ; University of California Press, ©2000.
Subjects:	Hayward Gallery > Exhibitions. Medicine and art > England > Catalogs. Medicine and art > England > Exhibitions. Anatomy, Artistic > Catalogs. Anatomy, Artistic > Exhibitions. Art, European > Exhibitions. Human figure in art > Exhibitions. Medicine in the Arts. Anatomy, Artistic. Human Body. England. Hayward Gallery. Art, European. Human figure in art. Medicine and art. Corpo humano. Anatomia. Catalogs. Exhibitions. Catalogs Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogues.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : 'Know thyself'
pt. 1. The divine machine
1. Men at work : the rituals of dissection-- 2. Waxing eloquent : anatomy and style
3. Artists and academies
pt. 2. The house of the soul
4. Reading the signs
5. Mad and bad : addled and atavistic
pt. 3. New bodies
6. Modernist absence and post-modern presences
7. New eyes
John Issacs
Katharine Dowson
Marc Quinn
Beth B
Christine Borland
Gerhard Lang
Tony Oursler
Bill Viola.