Assembling Bodies

Résumé du livre

How do we know and experience our bodies? How does the way we understand the human body reflect and influence our relations with others? Assembling Bodies reveals and challenges preconceived notions of the human body by exploring some of the different ways that bodies are imagined and understood in the arts, social and bio-medical sciences. The displays are drawn from the extraordinarily rich and diverse collections within the Museum, the University and the Colleges, complemented by external loans and exciting contemporary artworks. They include Bronze Age burials and Pacific funerary effigies, classical sculpture and kinetic artworks, medieval manuscripts and scientific instruments, anatomical drawings and bio-medical equipment. Moving through this diverse gathering of objects, you see how different techniques for making bodies visible bring new and often unexpected forms into focus. - Exhibition website.