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Poem of the Week: artful cuts

Posted on June 20, 2007 by cicada

“Flayed Angel” Jacques Gautier d’Agoty If you’ve not yet done so, pop on over to new blog Morbid Anatomy for a tour of some beautiful vintage medical illustrations. My favorite recent post was this collection of links to the work … Continue reading →

Posted in Artists & Art, Blogs and Blogging, Museum Lust | 2 Comments

17 praeternatural Rabbits

Posted on May 25, 2007 by cicada

Cunicularii engraving William Hogarth Here’s a gem of weirdness that I somehow missed, courtesy of Providentia: Towards the end of the year 1726, a rather astounding revelation involving a 25-year old maidservant named Mary Tofts came out. Contemporary sources described … Continue reading →

Posted in Biology, Frivolity | 3 Comments

More British book cover madness

Posted on April 5, 2007 by cicada

What is going on across the Atlantic? Thanks to Zen of Writing, I find that Jane Austen is ‘too ugly’ for book covers (BBC News). Basically, they took the only authenticated Jane portrait, by her sister Cassandra, and ran it … Continue reading →

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Medical illustration: future and past

Posted on January 27, 2007 by cicada

If you read my earlier post on anatomical representations of the female reproductive organs, you are familiar with Jan van Rymsdyk’s landmark engravings of a dissected full-term uterus. Thanks to Street Anatomy, an interesting new medical illustration blog, I see … Continue reading →

Posted in Artists & Art, Biology, Science | 3 Comments

Betcha didn’t see this at MLA. . .

Posted on January 9, 2007 by cicada

Out of reach Dave Rau www.redlabor.com Just as I began to fear that no topic could comfortably follow a post invoking medievalism and cephalopodmania, Phantasmaphile pointed me to the artwork of Dave Rau. Grungy engravings, fonts, textures, collaged and screened … Continue reading →

Posted in Artists & Art, Cephalopodmania | 1 Comment

Wombs, Waxes and Wonder Cabinets

Posted on January 5, 2007 by cicada

This essay has been reposted at the new bioephemera, Feb 19, 08. Anatomical Teaching Model of a Pregnant Woman Stephan Zick, 1639-1715 Wood and ivory Kunstkammer Georg Laue is a Munich antique/art gallery informed by the sensibility of the “wonder … Continue reading →

Posted in Artists & Art, Biology, Museum Lust, Wonder Cabinets | 14 Comments

Is that Charlotte Bronte all covered in birds?

Posted on December 19, 2006 by cicada

Artist Julia Swaney has some interesting prints inspired by engravings of natural subjects and Victorian women. I like the slightly disturbing aesthetic of body parts fused with animals and plants; it could be pure whimsy, or it could anticipate the … Continue reading →

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