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The Body in Western ArtAmerican Friends of Augustine College

Gary Swanson, M.DRobert Blume, M.D.

Ross Betts, M.D.

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Analytic body - assemblage of parts each seen in their most typical presentation (eye and torso front on; profile nose, head, legs, etc.)

Egyptian Presentation

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Greek Poseidon 5th Century B.C.

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Raice Warrior, 5th century B.C. Greek

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Venus De Milo-100-200 B.C.

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The Hellenistic Greek dying Gaul - suffering, actual dying, would not have been depicted by the ancient Greeks

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ROMAN_Emperor Trebonianus Gallus found in Rome_251-253 AD_

The Romans began to show people as they are, never mind the ideal

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Covered body of Eve -- Romanesque Period 1120 A.D

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Strasburg Cathedral !3th Century AD

Note that Clothing obscures bodily contour

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Wretchedness and penitence (body as, perhaps, an image of the soul)

Donatello 1462 ADMary Magdalene

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Mantegna 1490 ADLamentation Over the Dead Christ

Pathos expressed; medieval elements of form persist

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Holbein-The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521)

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Grunewald - Altarpiece 1515

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LeonardoVitruvian Man

Influence of mathematics on bodily presentation

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Bernini 1622Apollo and Daphne

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Bernini 1622Close up Daphne

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Canova 1804Perseus with Head of Medusa

Back to the Future?

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Eakins- The Crucifixion (1880)

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Eakins- Boy in Artelier

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Mary Cassatt 1844-1926

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Van Gogh 1885Skull of Skeleton With Burning Cigarette

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Nude Descending a Staircase Duchamp 1926

Body as Mechanism

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Picasso 1907 Desmoiselles d’Avignon

Fracturing and dislocation of the Body

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Kahn –Germany 1920s

Body as machine

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Bacon 1969Study of a Nude with a figure in a Mirror

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Lucien Freud 1987 Girl on a Bed

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Medical TopicsRembrandt The Anatomy Lesson

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Medical TopicsThomas Eakins-

The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic

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Medical TopicsEdvard Munch (1902)-Self Portrait on the Operating Table

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Bodies: The Exhibition

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Ron Mueck

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