Body criticism
Subtitle: imaging the unseen in Enlightenment art and medicine
By: Barbara Maria Stafford.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 587
Subjects: Body image -- History -- 18th century.; Anatomy, Artistic -- History -- 18th century.; Medicine and art -- History -- 18th century.; Enlightenment.
Description: A celebration of visual culture as well as a contribution to the history of the human body. It aims to explore the strategies developed in the 18th century for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. In the process it uncovers and analyzes a set of body metaphors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [534]-573) and index.