William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum / edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis ; with the assistance of María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.
Published / Created:
New Haven, CT : Yale Center for British Art : Yale University Press ; Glasgow, UK : Hunterian, University of Glasgow, 2018.
Physical Description:
437 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This publication accompanies the exhibitions William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum co-organized by The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, on view 27 September 2018-6 January, 2019, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, on view 14 February-20 May 2019."
Contents:
William Hunter : A Tercentenary Chronology / Seren Nolan -- Physician, Anatomist, Collector. William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum : An Introduction / Mungo Campbell -- Skeletons in Hunter's Closet : James Douglas and the Fashioning of William Hunter / Nathan Flis -- Richard Mead and William Hunter / Craig Ashley Hanson -- Conceptions of Knowledge in William Hunter's Library / Matthew Sangster -- Scalpel to Burin : A Material History of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus / Meredith Gamer -- "Extolled by Foreigners" : William Hunter's Collection and the Development of Science and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Europe / Dominik Hunniger -- "A great collection of curiosities from the South Sea Islands" : William Hunter's Ethnography / Nicholas Thomas -- Anatomical Jars and Butterflies : William Hunter and His Museum for Inquiry / Maria Dolores Sanchez-Jauregui -- Catalogue of the Exhibition. Portraits and Papers / Mungo Campbell -- Pedagogy and Professional Practice / Mungo Campbell -- Anatomical Illustration and the Culture of Anatomy / Peter Black -- Anatomical Preparations / Maggie Reilly and Stuart McDonald -- The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus / Mungo Campbell -- Paintings / Peter Black and Anne Dulau Beveridge -- The Library / Michelle Craig -- Coins and Medals / Donal Bateson -- Pacific and Other "Curiosities" / Nicholas Thomas -- Shells, Corals, Birds, Insects, and Other Preserved Animals / Maggie Reilly, Jeanne Robinson -- Ores and Fossils / John Faithfull, Neil Clark.
Subject Terms:
Hunter, William, 1718-1783 -- Exhibitions. | Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions. | Museums -- History -- Exhibitions. | Hunter, William, 1718-1783. | ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections. | ART / Museum Studies. | ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure. | Collectors and collecting. | Museums. | Great Britain.
Form/Genre:
Exhibition catalogs. | History.
Contributors:
Campbell, Mungo, editor, curator. | Flis, Nathan, editor, curator. | Sánchez-Jáuregui, María Dolores. | Hunterian Museum (University of Glasgow), organizer, host institution. | Yale Center for British Art, organizer, host institution.