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"Looking at Men explores how from c.1800 to 1920, the modern male body was forged through the intimately linked professions of art and medicine, which deployed muscular models and martial arts to renew the beau idéal. The modern ideal of virile manhood derived from the athletic perfection found in the classical male nude. The study of human anatomy and dissection in art and medicine underpinned a modern gladiatorial ideal, its representations setting the parameters not just of 'normal' virile masculinity but also its abject 'other'. Through the shared violence of human dissection and martial…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2018Yale University Press · 272 pages · 9780300112948
Men in artMasculinity in artMasculinityHuman anatomySocial aspectsArtistic AnatomyMartial artsMartial arts in art