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

Publication Info. London : Hayward Gallery ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, [2000]
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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  704.942 K32    Check Shelf
Description 232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
Note Catalog of an exhibition of the same title held at Hayward Gallery, London, Oct. 2000-Jan. 14, 2001.
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.
Subject Medicine in the Arts -- England -- Catalogs.
Medicine in the Arts -- England -- Exhibitions.
Anatomy, Artistic -- England -- Catalogs.
Anatomy, Artistic -- England -- Exhibitions.
Human Body -- England -- Catalogs.
Human Body -- England -- Exhibitions.
Hayward Gallery -- Exhibitions.
Art, European -- England -- London -- Exhibitions.
Medicine and art -- England -- London -- Exhibitions.
Anatomy, Artistic -- England -- London -- Exhibitions.
Human figure in art -- England -- London -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Kemp, Martin.
Wallace, Marina.
Hayward Gallery.
Added Title Art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now
ISBN 1853322148 paperback Hayward
0520227921 paperback Univ. of Calif.
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