Black Apollo: Aesthetics, Dissection, and Race in Joseph Maclise’s Surgical Anatomy
Joseph Maclise’s Surgical Anatomy (1851) is no ordinary anatomical atlas. While there is an assumption that the cadavers pictured in Western anatomical illustrations are white, Maclise included in his publication several depictions of the dissection of a Black man. A close examination of Maclise’s r...
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| Language: | English |
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Yale University
2021-07-01
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| Series: | British Art Studies |
| Online Access: | https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-20/maclise-black-apollo |