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Looking at men : anatomy, masculinity, and the modern male body / Anthea Callen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Callen, Anthea, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Men in art.
- Masculinity in art.
- Masculinity.
- Human anatomy--Social aspects.
- Human anatomy.
- Anatomy, Artistic.
- Martial arts--Social aspects.
- Martial arts.
- Martial arts in art.
- Body image in men.
- Medicine and art.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Looking at men' considers how art, medicine, and sport in the 19th century overlapped to reinforce notions of masculinity. Through a shared violence of human dissection, pugilism, and war, men in artistic and medical professions secured their masculine status and professional authority. This volume scrutinizes the relationships between the heteronormative, the homosocial, and the homoerotic in art and depictions of anatomy. Close analysis of works by Cezanne, Courbet, Degas, Delacroix, Gericault, Millet, Pissarro, and others offers fresh insight, reinforced by parallels illustrated in literary descriptions of bodies in Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, and Sherlock Holmes. Anthea Callen examines how ideas of healthy male "normality" and a modern virile masculinity were constructed and negotiated through these artistic and literary representations; she also measures these virile body images against actual, classed, or racialized male bodies, delivering lively scholarship that spans art history, history of science, literature, and anthropology, as well as studies of masculinity and sexuality.
- Contents:
- 1 The Body And Difference: Artistic Anatomy and the beau idéal p. 28
- 2 La Lutte: Masculinity, Muscularity and the Martial Arts of Anatomy p. 64
- 3 Doubles And Desire: Anatomies of Conflicted Masculinity p. 110
- 4 Size Matters: The Measurement of Man and Ideals of the Labouring Body p. 140
- 5 Masculinity And Monstrosity: The Body in Pieces p. 184.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300112948
- 0300112947
- OCLC:
- 1046072373
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