Anthony Bond

Joseph Leo Koerner

Timothy J. Clark

L. J. Jordanova

This text celebrates the lives of artists and their unique perspective on themselves and their work. An impressive array of self-portraits is presented in this major survey of the genre from the fifteenth century to the present day.

Renaissance to Contemporary

Self Portrait

In six interdisciplinary and wide-ranging essays, Ludmilla Jordanova analyzes scientific and medical representations of gender in advertising, paintings, film, literature, sculpture, wax anatomical models, and professional and popular writing about the biological and medical sciences during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She demonstrates that gender as metaphor has had an exceptionally vigorous life in the history of natural knowledge.

Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Sexual Visions

Visual and material sources are central to historical practice and this is a much-needed introduction to using artefacts as evidence.

Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice

The Look of the Past

Hayward Gallery

Deanna Petherbridge

Royal College of Art (Great Britain)

South Bank Centre

Mead Gallery

Leeds (England). City Art Gallery

To study anatomy, many artists dissected the dead to better depict the living. "The Quick and the Dead" focuses on a range of artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Cindy Sherman to show the great richness and complexity that can result when art and science intersect. The drawings, prints, photographs, and objects in this book span five centuries and mark numerous cultural shifts, yet their imagery is as powerful today as when they were created. 92 illustrations, 31 in color.

Artists and Anatomy

The Quick and the Dead

Joanna Woodall

With 140 images from collections all over the world, from Van Eyck to Chuck Close, this book includes pioneering essays on self-portraiture by leading art historians as well as informative analyses of almost sixty major works. The artists are shown constructing their identity, setting the scene for their life and times and above all showing themselves as creative individuals often captured in the act of conjuring their own image in the studio.

L. J. Jordanova

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