Explores the possibilities of concealed eroticism in anatomical drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes detailed analysis of text and images and explores the lives of the men who drew these illustrations, and those who used and collected them.
Explores the possibilities of concealed eroticism in anatomical drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes detailed analysis of text and images and explores the lives of the men who drew these illustrations, and those who used and collected them.
Michael Sappol is Visiting Researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a historian of the visual culture and performance of medicine and science, with a focus on anatomy and the Body. Between 1998 and 2016, he was Historian, Scholar-in-Residence and Exhibition Curator at the National Library of Medicine, USA.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Part One: The unbearable queerness of anatomy Introduction 1.1.1 A queer ventriloquism act 1.1.2 An advisory, an acknowledgment Theory 1.2.1 Queer explains everyone 1.2.2 Queer history 1.2.3 The gaze and its objects 1.2.4 Proliferating views, intensified viewing 1.2.5 An odd term 1.2.6 Default genders of anatomy 1.2.7 Homoerotics queered 1.2.8 The epistemology of the anatomical closet Objects 1.3.1 Mystery men, mute images 1.3.2 The mystery penis 1.3.3 The penis and medical eyes 1.3.4 The closet's edge Part Two: Connoisseurship, taste and "the beauty of the plate" Gautier 2.1.1 Hungry eyes, science and the anatomical mezzotint 2.1.2 Anatomical provocations and the senses Cheselden 2.2.1 "The beauty of the plate" 2.2.2 What is beautiful? 2.2.3 Connoisseurial judgment and anatomy 2.2.4 Cheselden's figures 2.2.5 Cheselden the man 2.2.6 The learning curve 2.2.7 Headbutting disputation Between Men 2.3.1 Between men: connoisseurs, collectors and anatomy 2.3.2 Conversations and "conversation pieces" 2.3.3 Eyes on the connoisseurial gaze 2.3.4 Between men: a continuum of attachments 2.3.5 Between men: surgical masculinity and objects Part Three: "Overshadowed by the artist": Mr Joseph Maclise's queer anatomy Prologue: Nicolas-Henri Jacob 3.1 Medical eyes, surgical hands Joseph Maclise 3.2 The mystery of Mr Joseph Maclise 3.2.1 Misters Quain and Maclise 3.2.2 Queer bedroom scenes 3.2.3 Irrelevant penises (a gallery) 3.2.4 Touching representation 3.2.5 Cascading rhymes 3.2.6 The anus compared 3.2.7 Maclise's men: An imaginary confraternity? 3.2.8 Race and Maclise's radical (queer) philosophy of universalist embodiment 3.2.9 Heteronormative queer 3.2.10 A crucifixion 3.2.11 How did Quain and Maclise get on? 3.2.12 Comparative anatomies: predecessors, contemporaries 3.2.13 The queer figure study 3.2.14 The locked atlas and locked closet Appendix 3.3 Maclise's long goodbye Conclusion: The ontology of the anatomical closet Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Part One: The unbearable queerness of anatomy Introduction 1.1.1 A queer ventriloquism act 1.1.2 An advisory, an acknowledgment Theory 1.2.1 Queer explains everyone 1.2.2 Queer history 1.2.3 The gaze and its objects 1.2.4 Proliferating views, intensified viewing 1.2.5 An odd term 1.2.6 Default genders of anatomy 1.2.7 Homoerotics queered 1.2.8 The epistemology of the anatomical closet Objects 1.3.1 Mystery men, mute images 1.3.2 The mystery penis 1.3.3 The penis and medical eyes 1.3.4 The closet's edge Part Two: Connoisseurship, taste and "the beauty of the plate" Gautier 2.1.1 Hungry eyes, science and the anatomical mezzotint 2.1.2 Anatomical provocations and the senses Cheselden 2.2.1 "The beauty of the plate" 2.2.2 What is beautiful? 2.2.3 Connoisseurial judgment and anatomy 2.2.4 Cheselden's figures 2.2.5 Cheselden the man 2.2.6 The learning curve 2.2.7 Headbutting disputation Between Men 2.3.1 Between men: connoisseurs, collectors and anatomy 2.3.2 Conversations and "conversation pieces" 2.3.3 Eyes on the connoisseurial gaze 2.3.4 Between men: a continuum of attachments 2.3.5 Between men: surgical masculinity and objects Part Three: "Overshadowed by the artist": Mr Joseph Maclise's queer anatomy Prologue: Nicolas-Henri Jacob 3.1 Medical eyes, surgical hands Joseph Maclise 3.2 The mystery of Mr Joseph Maclise 3.2.1 Misters Quain and Maclise 3.2.2 Queer bedroom scenes 3.2.3 Irrelevant penises (a gallery) 3.2.4 Touching representation 3.2.5 Cascading rhymes 3.2.6 The anus compared 3.2.7 Maclise's men: An imaginary confraternity? 3.2.8 Race and Maclise's radical (queer) philosophy of universalist embodiment 3.2.9 Heteronormative queer 3.2.10 A crucifixion 3.2.11 How did Quain and Maclise get on? 3.2.12 Comparative anatomies: predecessors, contemporaries 3.2.13 The queer figure study 3.2.14 The locked atlas and locked closet Appendix 3.3 Maclise's long goodbye Conclusion: The ontology of the anatomical closet Bibliography Index
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