Visual abstraction and anatomy
Pre- and post-modern imagery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12700692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tricia Daly, Philip Bell (0000-0001-9817-2457, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 183-198 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-3572 • E-ISSN: 1741-3214 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470357208088758 |
| OpenAlex | W2131417770 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
Illustrations from pre-modern and Renaissance `Anatomies', on the one hand, and late 20th-century digital representations of male and female anatomy, on the other, are contrasted and compared in terms of social semiotic concepts. The title page of On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543), for instance, presents detailed narrativizations and conceptual constructions of the changing worlds and significance of public anatomical demonstrations and their settings in `theatres'. In the early anatomical illustrations discussed, women's bodies were objectified as the locus of male surgeons' practices, revealing the truth of bifurcated gender. Similarly, in popular digital sequences of anatomy composed around mobile microphotographic `fly-throughs' in The Human Body (1998) and in other Wellcome Trust/BBC productions, gender is abstracted in ways that continue to naturalize long-established binaries
Abstraction · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Human anatomy · Human body · Linguistics · Semiotics · The Renaissance · Visual arts · Advertising and Communication Studies · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Medicine · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices · Anatomy
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |