Anatomical Drawing
A Scenographic Intersection Between Science, the Visual Arts and Performance
Published on 27. June 2024
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-350-28556-9 (ISBN)
Description
Intersecting art, science and the scenographic mise-en-scene, this book provides a new approach to anatomical drawing, viewed through the contemporary lens of scenographic theory.
Sue Field traces the evolution of anatomical drawing from its historical background of hand-drawn observational scientific investigations to the contemporary, complex visualization tools that inform visual art practice, performance, film and screen-based installations. Presenting an overview of traditional approaches across centuries, the opening chapters explore the extraordinary work of scientists and artists such as Andreas Vesalius, Gerard de Lairesse, Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Dorothy Foster Chubb who, through the medium of drawing dissect, dismember and anatomize the human form.
Anatomical Drawing examines how forms, fluids and systems are entangled within the labyrinthine two-dimensional drawn space and how the body has been the subject of the spectacle. Corporeal proportions continue to be embodied within the designs of structures, buildings and visual art. Illustrated throughout, the book explores the drawings of 17th-century architect and scenographer Inigo Jones, through to the ghostly, spectral forms illuminated in the present-day X-ray drawings of the artist Angela Palmer, and the visceral and deeply personal works of Kiki Smith. Field analyses the contemporary skeletal manifestations that have been spawned from the medieval Danse Macabre, such as Walt Disney's drawn animations and the theatrical staging, metaphor and allegorical intent in the contemporary drawn artworks of William Kentridge, Peter Greenaway, Mark Dion and Dann Barber.
This rigorous study illustrates how the anatomical drawing shapes multiple scenographic encounters, both on a two-dimensional plane and within a three-dimensional space, as the site of imaginative agency across the breadth of the visual and performance arts. These drawings are where a corporeal, spectacularized representation of the human body is staged and performed within an expanded drawn space, generating something new and unforeseen - a scenographic worlding.
Sue Field traces the evolution of anatomical drawing from its historical background of hand-drawn observational scientific investigations to the contemporary, complex visualization tools that inform visual art practice, performance, film and screen-based installations. Presenting an overview of traditional approaches across centuries, the opening chapters explore the extraordinary work of scientists and artists such as Andreas Vesalius, Gerard de Lairesse, Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Dorothy Foster Chubb who, through the medium of drawing dissect, dismember and anatomize the human form.
Anatomical Drawing examines how forms, fluids and systems are entangled within the labyrinthine two-dimensional drawn space and how the body has been the subject of the spectacle. Corporeal proportions continue to be embodied within the designs of structures, buildings and visual art. Illustrated throughout, the book explores the drawings of 17th-century architect and scenographer Inigo Jones, through to the ghostly, spectral forms illuminated in the present-day X-ray drawings of the artist Angela Palmer, and the visceral and deeply personal works of Kiki Smith. Field analyses the contemporary skeletal manifestations that have been spawned from the medieval Danse Macabre, such as Walt Disney's drawn animations and the theatrical staging, metaphor and allegorical intent in the contemporary drawn artworks of William Kentridge, Peter Greenaway, Mark Dion and Dann Barber.
This rigorous study illustrates how the anatomical drawing shapes multiple scenographic encounters, both on a two-dimensional plane and within a three-dimensional space, as the site of imaginative agency across the breadth of the visual and performance arts. These drawings are where a corporeal, spectacularized representation of the human body is staged and performed within an expanded drawn space, generating something new and unforeseen - a scenographic worlding.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
36 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-28556-9 (9781350285569)
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A Scenographic Intersection Between Science, the Visual Arts and Performance
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A Scenographic Intersection Between Science, the Visual Arts and Performance
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1st Edition
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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Sue Field is a researcher at UNSW Art and Design, Australia, and a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She has written scholarly papers for journals, national and international conferences, published academic book chapters, and is the author of Scenographic Design Drawing (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Content
List of Figures
Introduction
Chapter One: Drawn Beneath the Flesh
Chapter Two: Anatomy of the Theatre
Chapter Three: The Danse Macabre
Chapter Four: The Vanitas: Fragments of Death
Chapter Five: The Dissected Stage
Chapter Six: Hidden in the Shadows
Introduction
Drawn Beneath the Flesh
Scenographics
Theatricality
Worlding
Historical Overview
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
The Anatomist Govard Bidloo (1649-1713) and the Artist Gerard de Lairesse (1640-1711)
Frank Netter (1906-1991)
Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852 - 1934)
Twentieth Century Female Anatomical Illustrators
Epilogue
Anatomy of the Theatre
Anthropomorphic Representation
The Renaissance "Man" as the Center of the Universe
Theatrum Mundi, or Theatre of the World
Inigo Jones (1573-1652)
The Cockpit-in-Court
The Royal Court Masques at the Cockpit-in-Court
Barber Surgeon's Anatomy Theatre
The Anatomical Theatre as a Site of Spectacle
The Fleshly Gaze
Epilogue
The Danse Macabre
Osteological Evidence in the Danse Macabre
Performance and the Danse Macabre
The Danse at the Charner et Cimetiere des Innocents, Paris, 1424-1425
Medieval Spectatorship and the Danse Macabre
Medieval Spectatorship and Presence
Guyot Marchant
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497? - 1543)
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
Walt Disney's The Skeleton Dance (1929)
William Kentridge, More Sweetly Play the Dance, 2015
Peter Greenaway (1942-)
Representing the Unrepresentable
Epilogue
The Vanitas: Fragments of Death
Vanitas
Maria van Oosterwijck (1630-1693)
Sue Field
Anatomical Drawing
Left on Hold (2023)
Kiki Smith (1954-)
Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law (1985)
Drift (2022)
The Mind's Eye
Liminal Space
World Seen and the World Unseen
Kiki Smith - How I Know I'm Here (1985)
AI Can Do Many Things, but Can It Replicate These Drawings?
Epilogue
The Dissected Stage
The Anatomical Drawing and Scenographic Worlding Theory
Tristan Fou (Mad Tristan), 1944
Paranoiac - Critical Method
Artistic Motifs and Symbolism
Legacy
M Is for Man, Music, Mozart, 1991
Teatro Anatomico Padua, 1595
Animated Anatomical Drawings in Vesalius Song
Saint Orlan (1947-)
The Staging of "Female Beauty" as a Spectacle of Violence and Trauma
Langer's Lines
Anatomy Theatre (2017)
Dann Barber
The Medieval Morality Play
Medieval Theatricality and Spectatorship
Anatomical Drawing as a Meta-Theatrical Trope
Epilogue
Hidden in the Shadows
The X-Ray Drawings of
Australia's First Nation Peoples
X-Ray Bark Art
X-Ray Rock Art
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910 -1994)
Oppenheim (1913 - 1985)
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
William Kentridge (1955 -)
Angela Palmer (1957-)
Brain of the Artist (2012)
2020: The Sphere That Changed the World
Epilogue
All That Remains
Visible Human Project (VHP)
The Spectacular Anatomical Body
Holoman; Digital Cadaver
Gunther von Hagens (1945-)
The Spectacle of the Screen
Epilogue
References
Notes
Introduction
Chapter One: Drawn Beneath the Flesh
Chapter Two: Anatomy of the Theatre
Chapter Three: The Danse Macabre
Chapter Four: The Vanitas: Fragments of Death
Chapter Five: The Dissected Stage
Chapter Six: Hidden in the Shadows
Introduction
Drawn Beneath the Flesh
Scenographics
Theatricality
Worlding
Historical Overview
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
The Anatomist Govard Bidloo (1649-1713) and the Artist Gerard de Lairesse (1640-1711)
Frank Netter (1906-1991)
Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852 - 1934)
Twentieth Century Female Anatomical Illustrators
Epilogue
Anatomy of the Theatre
Anthropomorphic Representation
The Renaissance "Man" as the Center of the Universe
Theatrum Mundi, or Theatre of the World
Inigo Jones (1573-1652)
The Cockpit-in-Court
The Royal Court Masques at the Cockpit-in-Court
Barber Surgeon's Anatomy Theatre
The Anatomical Theatre as a Site of Spectacle
The Fleshly Gaze
Epilogue
The Danse Macabre
Osteological Evidence in the Danse Macabre
Performance and the Danse Macabre
The Danse at the Charner et Cimetiere des Innocents, Paris, 1424-1425
Medieval Spectatorship and the Danse Macabre
Medieval Spectatorship and Presence
Guyot Marchant
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497? - 1543)
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
Walt Disney's The Skeleton Dance (1929)
William Kentridge, More Sweetly Play the Dance, 2015
Peter Greenaway (1942-)
Representing the Unrepresentable
Epilogue
The Vanitas: Fragments of Death
Vanitas
Maria van Oosterwijck (1630-1693)
Sue Field
Anatomical Drawing
Left on Hold (2023)
Kiki Smith (1954-)
Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law (1985)
Drift (2022)
The Mind's Eye
Liminal Space
World Seen and the World Unseen
Kiki Smith - How I Know I'm Here (1985)
AI Can Do Many Things, but Can It Replicate These Drawings?
Epilogue
The Dissected Stage
The Anatomical Drawing and Scenographic Worlding Theory
Tristan Fou (Mad Tristan), 1944
Paranoiac - Critical Method
Artistic Motifs and Symbolism
Legacy
M Is for Man, Music, Mozart, 1991
Teatro Anatomico Padua, 1595
Animated Anatomical Drawings in Vesalius Song
Saint Orlan (1947-)
The Staging of "Female Beauty" as a Spectacle of Violence and Trauma
Langer's Lines
Anatomy Theatre (2017)
Dann Barber
The Medieval Morality Play
Medieval Theatricality and Spectatorship
Anatomical Drawing as a Meta-Theatrical Trope
Epilogue
Hidden in the Shadows
The X-Ray Drawings of
Australia's First Nation Peoples
X-Ray Bark Art
X-Ray Rock Art
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910 -1994)
Oppenheim (1913 - 1985)
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
William Kentridge (1955 -)
Angela Palmer (1957-)
Brain of the Artist (2012)
2020: The Sphere That Changed the World
Epilogue
All That Remains
Visible Human Project (VHP)
The Spectacular Anatomical Body
Holoman; Digital Cadaver
Gunther von Hagens (1945-)
The Spectacle of the Screen
Epilogue
References
Notes