For anyone interested in exploring art and anatomy…
You can learn more about the history of art and anatomy at Dream Anatomy Online– a compilation of resources from the National Library of Medicine.
Morbid Anatomy Blog is also a vital resource for art & anatomy curiosities (and much much more!)
Listed below are some publications I would recommend for any artist interested in the convergence of art and anatomy:
The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy
Deanna Petherbridge, L.J. Jordanova
University of California Press (1998)
Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today
Benjamin A. Rifkin, Michael J. Ackerman, Judith Folkenberg
Thames and Hudson Ltd (2011)
Anatomy Acts: How We Come To Know Ourselves
Andrew Patrizio, Dawn Kemp
Birlinn Ltd; Ill edition (2006)
Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery
Jean-Marie Le Minor, Henri Sick
Taschen; 1 edition (2005)
Encyclopedia Anatomica (TASCHEN Icons Series)
Museo La Specola Florence, TASCHEN
Taschen (2001)
Dream Anatomy
Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine (US)
National Institutes of Health; 1 edition (2006)
Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine
Michael Sappol, Arne Svenson, Laura Lindgren
Blast Books; 1 edition (2012)
Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure
Roberta Panzanelli
Getty Research Institute; 1 edition (2008)
Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now
Martin Kemp, Marina Wallace
University of California Press; 1 edition (2000)
Literature and Medicine also share a strong, dynamic relationship with the humanities devoted to researching and understanding the interfaces between literary and medical knowledge using literary and cultural texts to examine concerns related to illness, trauma, the body, and other medical issues. The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database is an excellent resource for this field
Specifically, literature exploring anatomy and the anatomical occupations has appeared on my list of research resources over the years, with the most interesting and moving listed below:
Prose:
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
Christine Montross
Penguin Books; Reprint edition (2008)
First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab
Albert Howard Carter
St Martin’s Press; 1st Picador USA Pbk. Ed edition (1998)
Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
Michelle Williams
Constable (2010)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
Penguin; New Ed edition (2004)
Working with the Dead
Josephine Price Powell
iUniverse, Inc. (2004)
Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner
Frederick Zugibe, David L. Carroll
Broadway Books; Reprint edition (2006)
Death’s Acre: Inside the legendary ‘Body Farm’
Patricia Cornwell, Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson
Sphere; New Ed edition (2004)
Poetry:
Cadaver, Speak
Marianne Boruch
Copper Canyon Press (2014)
Gray’s Anatomy: The Poems
Christopher Anthony Leibow
(2012)
Poems about Anatomy – allpoetry.com
Any additions you have are welcome. Make your comment!
