Images of the Corpse: From the Renaissance to CyberspaceElizabeth Klaver This compelling book brings together physicians, artists, and scholars of film, literature, philosophy, art, and politics to discuss the representation of the corpse in Western culture. Spanning a timeline from the Renaissance to the present, these essays introduce readers to a modern autopsy, a public execution and dissection in seventeenth-century England, the genre of postmortem photography, the corpse as artist's model, images of dead women in such popular films as Copycat and The Silence of the Lambs, and post-mortem scenes in the works of Flaubert, Balzac, Andres Serrano, and others. |
Contents
The Art of Making Visible | 16 |
Blood and Circuses | 39 |
Representation of the Dead Body in Literature and Medical | 63 |
Death and the Dead | 88 |
Watching Over the Wounded Eyes of Georges Bataille | 113 |
Gerhard Richter in the Wake of the Vanguard | 133 |
Digital Anatomy and the Precession | 169 |
Death as Differend | 186 |
Dead or Alive | 206 |
Contributors | 229 |
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