Museums

Forces of form

by Rooy, Laurens de, Bogaard, Hans van den, Knepper, Simon, Kortenray, Johan, Moorman, Antoon

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"The Museum Vrolikianum in Amsterdam was famous amongst scientists and medical men all over Europe in the nineteenth century. No visit to the city was complete without taking the opportunity to gaze in admiration at its five thousand specimens, ranging from curious stillbirths t…

Elegant anatomy: the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collecti…

by Hendriksen, Marieke M. A.

fromHistory of science and medicine library

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"In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical co…

Elegant Anatomy: the Eighteenth-Century Leiden Anatomical Collecti…

by Hendriksen, Marieke M. A.

fromHistory of science and medicine library

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In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. Starting from the materiality of preparations, it introduces the novel analytical concept of aes…

Elegant anatomy: the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collecti…

by Hendriksen, Marieke M. A.

fromHistory of science and medicine library

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"In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical co…

Elegant anatomy: the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collecti…

by Hendriksen, Marieke M. A.

fromHistory of science and medicine library

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"In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical co…

Elegant anatomy: the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collecti…

by Hendriksen, Marieke M. A.

fromHistory of science and medicine library

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"In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical co…

Elegant anatomy: the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collecti…

by Hendriksen, Marieke M. A.

fromHistory of science and medicine library

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"In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical co…

The scar of visibility: medical performances and contemporary art

by Kuppers, Petra

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Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs and computer imaging--and the bodily access they imply--to reveal their limitations. In doing so they emphasize the unknowability of another's bodily experience and the effects--phy…

The scar of visibility: medical performances and contemporary art

by Kuppers, Petra

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In The Scar of Visibility, Petra Kuppers examines the use of medical imagery practices in contemporary art, as well as different arts of everyday life. Among the works she investigates are the controversial Body Worlds exhibition of plastinized corpses, films like David Cronenbe…

The Delirious Museum: A Journey from the Louvre to Las Vegas

by Storrie, Calum

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The Delirious Museum gives a new interpretation of the relationship between the museum and the city in the twenty-first century. It presents an original view of the idea of the museum, proposing that it is, or should be, both a repository of the artefacts of the past and a conti…

The delirious museum: a journey from the Louvre to Las Vegas

by Storrie, Calum

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The Delirious Museum" is a remarkable, illuminating work, which presents an original view of the idea of the museum in the twenty-first century, re-imagining the possibilities for museums and their displays and re-examining the blurred boundaries between museums and the cities a…