Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre (Mediamatters): 1 - Softcover

Bleeker, Maaike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9053565167 ISBN 13: 9789053565162

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Gross anatomy, the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by unassisted vision, has long been a subject of fascination for artists. For most modern viewers, however, the anatomy lesson--the technically precise province of clinical surgeons and medical faculties--hardly seems the proper breeding ground for the hybrid workings of art and theory. We forget that, in its early stages, anatomy pursued the highly theatrical spirit of Renaissance science, as painters such as Rembrandt and Da Vinci and medical instructors like Fabricius of Aquapendente shared audiences devoted to the workings of the human body. "Anatomy Alive": "Performance and the Operating Theatre," a remarkable consideration of new developments on the stage, as well as in contemporary writings of theorists such as Donna Haraway and Brian Massumi, turns our modern notions of the dissecting table on its head--using anatomical theatre as a means of obtaining a fresh perspective on representations of the body, conceptions of subjectivity, and own knowledge about science and the stage. Critically dissecting well-known exhibitions like "Body Worlds" and "The Visible Human Project" and featuring contributions from a number of diverse scholars on such subjects as the construction of spectatorship and the implications of anatomical history, "Anatomy Alive" is not to be missed by anyone with an interest in this engaging intersection of science and artistic practice.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In de bundel Anatomy Live gaan verschillende wetenschappers in op de relatie tussen de geschiedenis van het anatomische lichaam en het theater. In de openbare ontledingen in het historische anatomische theater van de vroege renaissance werd de basis gelegd voor wat in de daaropvolgende eeuwen het wetenschappelijke beeld van het lichaam zou gaan bep

About the Author:

Maaike Bleeker is a dramaturge and professor of theatre and dance at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9053565167
• ISBN 13: 9789053565162
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272