Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy

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Anatomica brings together some of the most striking, fascinating and bizarre anatomical artworks from the 14th through to the 20th century, drawn from collections such as The Wellcome Collection and the University of Toronto's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Librar y, The New York Academy of Medicine historical collections, and the Duke University History of Medicine Collection, exploring the art of human anatomy in one beautiful volume.

There’s a fine line between the horrible and the sublime, and Joanna Ebenstein’s ANATOMICA: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy walks it. Anatomica brings together some of the most striking, fascinating and bizarre artworks from the 16th through to the 20th century, exploring human anatomy in one beautiful volume.

I’m sure there are others, but those are the ones I’ve found – partly because my offices was one block away. She is the founder of the Morbid Anatomy blog, library and event series, and was cofounder and creative director of the recently shuttered Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, New York. The partnership led to an expansion of the Anatomica ethos to include more American styles (Teramoto’s passion) and more Japanese manufacturing. The 618 Original is based on one of Levi's iconic models, taking inspiration from mid-late 1960's styles, often referred to as their 66' model. The approach of seamlessly blending European fashion with utilitarian vintage workwear styles worked perfectly and caught the eye of Japanese archivist and brand enthusiast Kinji Teramoto (Rocky Mountain Featherbed) and they began to collaborate in 2008.

Covering all the body parts and different periods of anatomic art, it is interesting for anyone interested in either the human body or drawings. Joanna Ebenstein is an internationally recognised expert in the art of anatomy and creator of the Morbid Anatomy blog, library and event series.It is developed by the Federative International Programme on Anatomical Terminology, a program of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA). If you love museums like the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia or exhibits such as Body Worlds, then this book is a perfect fit!

The obvious example is the range of Alden shoes, which are largely made on an unusual last you find almost nowhere else: the modified last. The art between these covers is stunning, the level of detail that those anatomical artists managed to put on the page is almost hyper-real and in some cases dates back hundreds of years. A well-rounded sitting area and a soft padding in an anatomic design promise comfortable commutes and leisure tours.Drawn by Jakob Wilhelm Roux, it comes from Tabulae arteriarum corporis humani, (Illustrations of the Arteries in the Human Body), 1822, by the German doctor Friedrich Tiedemann. Nach einer Odyssee von Fahrradsätteln bin ich hiermit glücklich geworden, absolut bequemer Sattel auch für lange Touren mit großen Höhenunterschieden - nichts was irgendwo "zwickt oder zwackt" oder gar Probleme bereitet. Many of the Anatomica clothes are more unusual than these, though, and a little less contemporary in design. A 2014 survey of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists found that the TA preferred term had the highest frequency of usage in only 53% of the 25 anatomical terms surveyed, and was highest or second-highest for 92% of terms. The human body, one feels while looking at these prints, is both an intimate and shockingly impersonal thing.