The representation of the human body : art and medicine in the work of Charles Bell
- Author
- Jordanova, Ludmilla
- Document type
- Article (livre)
- Language
English
- Book title
- Towards a modern art world
- Author (monograph)
- Allen, Brian (Editor, Collective Author)
- Source
- Towards a modern art world. 1995, 79-94
- Publisher
- Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (usa)
- Publication country
- United States
- Abstract (en)
- Examines the career of Charles Bell - artist, anatomist, surgeon and natural theologian - as a means of addressing questions about the kinship between art and other areas of social and cultural life in early-19th c. Britain. Identifies as the hub of Bell's thought the notion that art and medicine unite as disciplines for reading, interpreting and representing God's language as it has been stamped upon human beings. The implications of Bell's approach are that art is properly a religiously-inspired endeavor, and that it can only be fully developed with the help of medicine. However, while Bell's whole intellectual framework encouraged him to think of art and medicine as possessing a profound kinship, he was never accepted into the Royal Academy, and he apparently harbored deep reservations about the relationships between the two professions.
- Subject (en)
- Subject (fr)
- Origin
DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)
Identifier19960101-00282408
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