Friday, May 27, 2005

Dream Anatomy: Anatomical Dreamtime

Una excelente página de la historia del estudio de la anatomía humana y la influencia de las diferentes técnicas de impresión a través del tiempo:





The interior of our bodies is hidden to us. What happens beneath the skin is mysterious, fearful, amazing. In antiquity, the body's internal structure was the subject of speculation, fantasy, and some study, but there were few efforts to represent it in pictures. The invention of the printing press in the 15th century-and the cascade of print technologies that followed-helped to inspire a new spectacular science of anatomy, and new spectacular visions of the body. Anatomical imagery proliferated, detailed and informative but also whimsical, surreal, beautiful, and grotesque — a dream anatomy that reveals as much about the outer world as it does the inner self.


Dream Anatomy: Anatomical Dreamtime

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