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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects
This volume addresses the interdependencies between visual
technologies and epistemology with regard to our perception of the
medical body. It explores the relationships between the
imagination, the body, and concrete forms of visual
representations: Ranging from the Renaissance paradigm of anatomy,
to Foucault's "birth of the clinic" and the institutionalised
construction of a "medical gaze"; from "visual" archives of
madness, psychiatric art collections, the politicisation and
economisation of the body, to the post-human in mass media
representations. Contributions to this volume investigate medical
bodies as historical, technological, and political constructs,
constituted where knowledge formation and visual cultures
intersect. Contributors are: Axel Fliethmann, Michael Hau, Birgit
Lang, Carolyn Lau, Heikki Lempa, stef lenk, Joanna Madloch, Barry
Murnane, Jill Redner, Claudia Stein, Elizabeth Stephens, Corinna
Wagner, and Christiane Weller.
This guidance describes a method of recording historic buildings
for the purpose of historical understanding using analytical site
drawing and measuring by hand. The techniques described here have a
long tradition of being used to aid understanding by observation
and close contact with building fabric. They can be used by all
involved in making records of buildings of all types and ages, but
are particularly useful for vernacular buildings and architectural
details which are crucial to the history of a building or site. .
Record drawings are best used alongside other recording techniques
such as written reports and photography or to supplement digital
survey data. They can also be used as a basis for illustrations
that disseminate understanding to wider audiences.
Celebrated children's book illustrator Fritz Wegner (b.Vienna 15th
September 1924, d. London 15th March 2015,). Early work included
assignments for Lilliput, Dorothy L.Sayers and Enid Blyton, with
book covers for Raymond Chandler and J.D.Salinger. In the late
1950s he moved away from advertising and commercial art to focus on
children's literature. Significant titles include The Hamish
Hamilton Book of Princes and Princesses (1963), The Marvellous
Adventures and Travels of Baron Munchausen (1967), Fatipuffs and
Thinifers (Andre Maurois), to books by Alan Ahlberg, Michael Rosen
and Brian Alderson in the 1980s and '90s. He also created over
thirty stamp designs for the Royal Mail.The Fritz Wegner Archive
documents phases of his work from the 1950s to the 2000s, and
includes comprehensive images scanned from the originals kept ion
seventeen folders in his studio. The publication is authorised by
executors of the estate of the artist.
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