Queer anatomies: aesthetics and desire in the anatomical image, 1700-1900

Abstract

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Part one: The unbearable queerness of anatomy -- Introduction -- Theory -- Objects -- Part two: Connoisseurship, taste and "the beauty of the plate" -- Gautier -- Cheselden -- Between men -- Part three: "Overshadowed by the artist": Mr Joseph Maclise's queer anatomy -- Prologue: Nicolas-Henri Jacob -- Joseph Maclise Part four: Conclusion