Book chapter
Visceral visions: art, pedagogy and politics in Revolutionary France
Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century, pp.294-310
Manchester University Press
08/08/2018
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv18b5m58.21
Abstract
In late eighteenth-century France, at the seeming height of neoclassicism in the arts with its goal of idealised form al’antica in the depiction of the human figure, an intensified fascination with the visual experience of viscera emerged. Visualisations of viscera and the innards of the human body in general abound in the visual culture of this period, including prints (anatomical as well as political), wax models of human figures with organs exposed, écorché figures, either sculpted or cast from cadavers, and paintings engaging the subject of death and disembowelment. We also see the actual participation in dissection by artists as
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- Title: Subtitle
- Visceral visions: art, pedagogy and politics in Revolutionary France
- Creators
- Dorothy Johnson
- Contributors
- Rebecca Anne Barr (Editor)Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon (Editor)Sophie Vasset (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century, pp.294-310
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- DOI
- 10.2307/j.ctv18b5m58.21
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/08/2018
- Academic Unit
- Art and Art History
- Record Identifier
- 9984397233102771
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