Queer Anatomies

Queer Anatomies

Aesthetics and Desire in the Anatomical Image, 1700-1900

Sappol, Michael

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

10/2024

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9781350400863

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Part One: The unbearable queerness of anatomy

Introduction
1.1.1 A queer ventriloquism act
1.1.2 An advisory, an acknowledgment

Theory
1.2.1 Queer explains everyone
1.2.2 Queer history
1.2.3 The gaze and its objects
1.2.4 Proliferating views, intensified viewing
1.2.5 A-n odd term
1.2.6 Default genders of anatomy
1.2.7 Homoerotics queered
1.2.8 The epistemology of the anatomical closet

Objects
1.3.1 Mystery men, mute images
1.3.2 The mystery penis
1.3.3 The penis and medical eyes
1.3.4 The closet's edge

Part Two: Connoisseurship, taste and "the beauty of the plate"

Gautier
2.1.1 Hungry eyes, science and the anatomical mezzotint
2.1.2 Anatomical provocations and the senses

Cheselden
2.2.1 "The beauty of the plate"
2.2.2 What is beautiful?
2.2.3 Connoisseurial judgment and anatomy
2.2.4 Cheselden's figures
2.2.5 Cheselden the man
2.2.6 The learning curve
2.2.7 Headbutting disputation

Between Men
2.3.1 Between men: connoisseurs, collectors and anatomy
2.3.2 Conversations and "conversation pieces"
2.3.3 Eyes on the connoisseurial gaze
2.3.4 Between men: a continuum of attachments
2.3.5 Between men: surgical masculinity and objects

Part Three: "Overshadowed by the artist": Mr Joseph Maclise's queer anatomy

Prologue: Nicolas-Henri Jacob
3.1 Medical eyes, surgical hands

Joseph Maclise
3.2 The mystery of Mr Joseph Maclise
3.2.1 Misters Quain and Maclise
3.2.2 Queer bedroom scenes
3.2.3 Irrelevant penises (a gallery)
3.2.4 Touching representation
3.2.5 Cascading rhymes
3.2.6 The anus compared
3.2.7 Maclise's men: An imaginary confraternity?
3.2.8 Race and Maclise's radical (queer) philosophy of universalist embodiment
3.2.9 Heteronormative queer
3.2.10 A crucifixion
3.2.11 How did Quain and Maclise get on?
3.2.12 Comparative anatomies: predecessors, contemporaries
3.2.13 The queer figure study
3.2.14 The locked atlas and locked closet

Appendix
3.3 Maclise's long goodbye

Conclusion: The ontology of the anatomical closet

Bibliography

Index
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Queer Studies; 18th Century Art; 19th Century Art; Anatomy; Eroticism; Anatomical Drawings; LGBTQ+; Medical History; Art Theory; Queer Art; Illustrations; Connoisseurship