03014cam a2200265 i 4500999001700000003000400017005001700021008004100038020003100079020002500110082002900135100003000164245009900194300005900293504006900352505011400421520183900535650002302374650002602397650002902423650002702452776012702479942000802606952013402614  c14347d14347OSt20260214114612.0230905s2024    enka     b    001 0 eng    a9781350400870q(paperback)  z9781350400894q(pdf)00a743.4/9223/eng/202311141 aSappol, Michael,eauthor.10aQueer anatomies :baesthetics and desire in the anatomical image, 1700-1900 /cMichael Sappol.  axix, 260 pages :bchiefly color illustrations ;c24 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [233]-249) and index.0 aTheory -- Objects -- Gagutier -- Cheselden -- Between men -- Prologue: Nicolas-Henri Jacob -- Joseph Maclise.  a"Anatomical drawing has long occupied a unique space between science and art - precise and informative but often also strangely aesthetically pleasing. Filled with images of dead and dissected bodies and body-parts, it was often by turns monstrous, provocative, playful and theatrical. Queer Anatomies reveals and explores the possibilities of sexual desire within anatomical drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries. It uncovers the subtle eroticism of certain anatomical illustrations, and the queerness of the men who made, used and collected them. A foundational subject in both the art academy and medical school, anatomy was a privileged, male-heavy domain in which dissected naked bodies, genitalia, and the rectum were available for representation. In the Victorian era, when same-sex desire and the human sexual apparatus were debarred from polite conversation and printed discourse, even seemingly sober illustrations could be charged with erotic, often homoerotic, undertones. Offering essayistic reflection and close readings of key images and texts - including works by Gautier d'Agoty, William Cheselden, Joseph Maclise and many others - Queer Anatomies places medical history, connoisseurship, queer studies, and art history into dialog with each other, and sheds new light on the history of anatomical illustration and the body. The book contains full-colour reproductions of a range of drawings - from renderings of dead and dissected bodies, penises, vaginas, rectums, hands, and skin, to images of male viewers gazing upon drawings, paintings, prints and sculptures of the naked body. Some are brilliant, accurate representations of the body, others are barely competent. But all are full of interest and offer a fascinating insight into the subversive reception of the naked body in the buttoned-up Victorian era"-- 0aAnatomy, Artistic. 0aSex (Biology) in art. 0aSex (Psychology) in art. 0aHomosexuality and art.08iOnline version:aSappol, Michael.tQueer anatomiesdLondon : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024z9781350400887w(DLC) 2023028325  2ddc  00102ddc406743_400000000000000_970aBMSCAbBMSCAcGENd2025-12-19l0o743.4/9pAR-UG5280r2026-02-10 00:00:00w2026-02-10yUG