Anatomical Drawing

Sue Field is a researcher at UNSW Art and Design, Australia, and a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She has written scholarly papers for journals, national and international conferences, published academic book chapters, and is the author of Scenographic Design Drawing (Bloomsbury, 2021).

• List of FiguresIntroductionChapter One: Drawn Beneath the FleshChapter Two: Anatomy of the TheatreChapter Three: The Danse MacabreChapter Four: The Vanitas: Fragments of DeathChapter Five: The Dissected StageChapter Six: Hidden in the ShadowsIntroductionDrawn Beneath the FleshScenographicsTheatricalityWorldingHistorical OverviewAndreas Vesalius (1514–1564)The Anatomist Govard Bidloo (1649-1713) and the Artist Gérard de Lairesse (1640-1711)Frank Netter (1906–1991)Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852 - 1934)Twentieth Century Female Anatomical IllustratorsEpilogueAnatomy of the TheatreAnthropomorphic RepresentationThe Renaissance “Man” as the Center of the UniverseTheatrum Mundi, or Theatre of the WorldInigo Jones (1573-1652)The Cockpit-in-CourtThe Royal Court Masques at the Cockpit-in-CourtBarber Surgeon's Anatomy TheatreThe Anatomical Theatre as a Site of SpectacleThe Fleshly GazeEpilogueThe Danse MacabreOsteological Evidence in the Danse MacabrePerformance and the Danse MacabreThe Danse at the Charner et Cimetière des Innocents, Paris, 1424-1425Medieval Spectatorship and the Danse MacabreMedieval Spectatorship and PresenceGuyot MarchantHans Holbein the Younger (1497? – 1543)Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)Walt Disney’s The Skeleton Dance (1929)William Kentridge, More Sweetly Play the Dance, 2015Peter Greenaway (1942-)Representing the UnrepresentableEpilogueThe Vanitas: Fragments of DeathVanitasMaria van Oosterwijck (1630-1693)Sue FieldAnatomical DrawingLeft on Hold (2023)Kiki Smith (1954-)Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law (1985)Drift (2022)The Mind’s EyeLiminal SpaceWorld Seen and the World UnseenKiki Smith - How I Know I’m Here (1985)AI Can Do Many Things, but Can It Replicate These Drawings?EpilogueThe Dissected StageThe Anatomical Drawing and Scenographic Worlding TheoryTristan Fou (Mad Tristan), 1944Paranoiac - Critical MethodArtistic Motifs and SymbolismLegacyM Is for Man, Music, Mozart, 1991Teatro Anatomico Padua, 1595Animated Anatomical Drawings in Vesalius SongSaint Orlan (1947-)The Staging of “Female Beauty” as a Spectacle of Violence and TraumaLanger’s LinesAnatomy Theatre (2017)Dann BarberThe Medieval Morality PlayMedieval Theatricality and SpectatorshipAnatomical Drawing as a Meta-Theatrical TropeEpilogueHidden in the ShadowsThe X-Ray Drawings ofAustralia’s First Nation PeoplesX-Ray Bark ArtX-Ray Rock ArtDorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910 -1994)Oppenheim (1913 - 1985)Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo ScofidioWilliam Kentridge (1955 -)Angela Palmer (1957-)Brain of the Artist (2012)2020: The Sphere That Changed the WorldEpilogueAll That RemainsVisible Human Project (VHP)The Spectacular Anatomical BodyHoloman; Digital CadaverGunther von Hagens (1945-)The Spectacle of the ScreenEpilogueReferencesNotes