Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now

摘要: This magnificently illustrated book accompanies the most ambitious exhibition in Hayward Gallery's program for year 2000. "Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of Human Body from Leonardo da Vinci to Now" is a ground-breaking with potential be visual, cultural, academic revelation profound impact. project encourages new way looking at visual objects territories that are conventionally labeled 'medicine' 'art'. human body an astounding feat engineering. For centuries man has striven understand its complexities, both artistically anatomically, often resorting dissection.Illustrating point which medicine art collide, "Know Thyself" brings together extraordinary range more than 250 eighty medical museums collections worldwide. Works across include anatomical drawings Leonardo, Michelangelo, Durer, Stubbs, seventeenth-century portraits surgeons paintings by great masters including Rembrandt, Hogarth, Courbet, Gericault, Degas. These works will shown context alongside instruments, prints, used study face body, life-size models.Today, as forensic sciences advance never before - development genetic fingerprinting, cryogenics, designer babies artists continue find inspiration body. Video installations, photography, sculpture present perspectives on historic material. eight contemporary involved internationally celebrated video Bill Viola Tony Oursler, younger like Gerhard Lang, Christine Borland, Marc Quinn.