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Looking at Men - Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body (Hardcover)
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Looking at Men - Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body (Hardcover)
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Beginning in 1800, Looking at Men explores how the modern male body
was forged through the intimately linked professions of art and
medicine, which deployed muscular models and martial arts to renew
the beau ideal. This ideal of the virile body derived from the
athletic perfection found in the classical male nude. The study of
human anatomy and dissection in both art and medicine underpinned a
modern gladiatorial ideal, its representations setting the
parameters not just of 'normal' virile masculinity but also its
abject 'other'. Through the shared violence of human dissection and
martial arts, male artists and medics secured their professional
privilege and authority on the bodies of 'roughs'. First and
foremost visual, this process has literary parallels in
Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde. While embodying signs of dominant
power and signalling differences of race, class, gender and
sexuality, the virile masculine ideal contained its shadow, the
threat of loss, of a Darwinian 'degeneration' that required
vigilant intervention to ensure the health of nations. Anthea
Callen's lively and intelligent study casts a new eye on
contributions by many lesser-known artists, as well as more
familiar works by Gericault, Courbet, Dalou and Bazille through to
Eakins, Thornycroft, Leighton and Tonks, and includes images that
draw on photography and the popular visual cultures of boxing,
wrestling and bodybuilding. Callen reassesses ideas of the modern
male body and virile manhood in this exploration of the
heteronormative, the homosocial and the homoerotic in art, anatomy
and nascent anthropology.
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