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Darrera modificació: 2024-06-25
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
McCall, Taylor, "Functional abstraction in medieval anatomical diagrams", dins: Gertsman, Elina (ed.), Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2021, pp. 285-308.
- Resum
- This essay seeks to present and analyse the use of abstraction in medieval anatomical imagery by focusing on a series of organ diagrams circulating around Europe between c. 1150–1450. These schematic drawings reflect the necessity of communicating information that could not be easily comprehended through textual description alone in an alternative, creative format. I introduce the idea of functional abstraction in epistemological imagery: using abstract forms to convey knowledge that could not be adequately expressed by naturalism. By comparing these disembodied organs to alternate, non-abstracted images presenting organs within the recognizable context of the human body, we delve into the medieval use of geometrical forms as a method of abstraction, and examine the interaction between word and image in medieval diagrams.
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Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
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