William Hunter And The Anatomy Of The Modern Museum

Author : Mungo Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300260762
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum written by Mungo Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition organized by the Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, to celebrate the 2018 tercentenary of The Hunterian's founder, Dr. William Hunter (1718-1783). This publication is the first in 150 years to assess the contribution made by Hunter, the Scottish-born obstetrician, anatomist, and collector, to the development of the modern museum as a public institution. Essays examine how Hunter gathered his collection to be used as a source of knowledge and instruction, encompassing outstanding paintings and works on paper, coins and medals, and anatomical and zoological specimens. Hunter also possessed ethnographic artifacts from Spain, the Middle East, China, and the South Pacific, and was an avid collector of medieval manuscripts and incunabula; these were all located within one of the most important "working" libraries of eighteenth-century London"--

Author : María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui
Publisher : Yc British Art
ISBN 13 : 9780300236651
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum written by María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui and published by Yc British Art. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication accompanies the exhibitions William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum co-organized by The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, on view 27 September 2018-6 January, 2019, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, on view 14 February-20 May 2019."

Author : Helen McCormack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134767153
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds written by Helen McCormack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant contribution to the history of collecting and the promotion of the fine arts in Britain in the eighteenth century. Born at the family home in East Calderwood, he matriculated at the University of Glasgow in 1731 and was greatly influenced by some of the most important philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746). He quickly abandoned his studies in theology for Medicine and, in 1740, left Scotland for London where he steadily acquired a reputation as an energetic and astute practitioner; he combined his working life as an anatomist successfully with a wide range of interests in natural history, including mineralogy, conchology, botany and ornithology; and in antiquities, books, medals and artefacts; in the fine arts, he worked with artists and dealers and came to own a number of beautiful oil paintings and volumes of extremely fine prints. He built an impressive school of anatomy and a museum which housed these substantial and important collections. William Hunter’s life and work is the subject of this book, a cultural-anthropological account of his influence and legacy as an anatomist, physician, collector, teacher and demonstrator. Combining Hunter’s lectures to students of anatomy with his teaching at the St Martin’s Lane Academy, his patronage of artists, such as Robert Edge Pine, George Stubbs and Johan Zoffany, and his associations with artists at the Royal Academy of Arts, the book positions Hunter at the very centre of artistic, scientific and cultural life in London during the period, presenting a sustained and critical account of the relationship between anatomy and artists over the course of the long eighteenth century.

Author : Nick Pearce
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351536923
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Hunter's World written by Nick Pearce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century, and the fact that his collection is the foundation of Scotland's oldest public museum, The Hunterian, until now there has been no comprehensive examination in a single volume of all his collections in their diversity. This volume restores Hunter to a rightful position of prominence among the medical men whose research and amassing of specimens transformed our understanding of the natural world and man's position within it. This volume comprises essays by international specialists and are as diverse as Hunter's collections themselves, dealing as they do with material that ranges from medical and scientific specimens, to painting, prints, books and manuscripts. The first sections focus upon Hunter's own collection and his response to it, while the final section contextualises Hunter within the wider sphere. A special feature of the volume is the inclusion of references to the Hunterian's web pages and on-line databases. These enable searches for items from Hunter's collections, both from his museum and library. Locating Hunter's collecting within the broader context of his age and environment, this book provides an original approach to a man and collection whose importance has yet to be comprehensively assessed.

Author : Hunterian Museum (University of Glasgow)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.H6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Anatomical and Pathological Preparations of Dr. William Hunter written by Hunterian Museum (University of Glasgow) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of the Human Teeth written by John Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Anne Curry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131651031X
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worlds of Natural History written by Helen Anne Curry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.

Author : William Hunter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunter's Lectures of Anatomy written by William Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anatomie / Vorlesungen / Hunter, William.

Author : Deanna Petherbridge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520217386
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Deanna Petherbridge and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : George Stubbs
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140482
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of the Horse written by George Stubbs and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterpiece of animal anatomy contains 36 plates that reproduce Stubbs' etchings. Based on the artist's own dissections and outline views, the illustrations feature extensive explanatory text. Full reproduction of 1766 edition.