The Anatomy Lesson
is the second of three consecutive books issued by the press that
focus on the body, each with a very different concept and format.
The Anatomy Lesson: Unveiling the Fasciculus Medicinae is a comprehensive
artistic, poetic, and scholarly response to the 1495 Fasciculus
Medicinae, the first printed book with anatomical illustrations.
The artist, Joyce Cutler-Shaw (http://joycecutlershaw.com/), has
been Artist-in-Residence at the School of Medicine, University of
California, San Diego since 1991. The book was sparked by her invitation
to participate in the 1995 Science and the Artist's Book exhibition,
sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute and the WPA (http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Science-and-the-Artists-Book/).
New commentaries by invited scholars such as Katharine Park, Peter
Murray Jones, and Barbara Maria Stafford provide rich and varied
contexts for interpreting the artist's work vis-à-vis the medieval
woodcuts and sample pages of Latin text, reproduced full size. Introduction
and editorial assistance is by Dr. William Shupbach, The Wellcome
Library, London. Each of the ten main sections includes a four-page
spread that opens to forty inches wide, and features a photogravure
of Cutler-Shaw's drawing, printed by Jon Goodman. The rest is printed
letterpress in black onto handmade white paper. Text faces are Adobe
Poetica and Minion. Concertina binding co-designed with Daniel E.
Kelm and Joyce Cutler-Shaw, produced at The Wide Awake Garage; hologram
on front cover, produced by DuPont Authentication Systems, features
an early eighteenth-century brass lancet. Housed in a custom-made,
engraved stainless steel box. Twenty pages of the College of Physicians
of Philadelphia copy of the 1495 Fasciculus Medicinae were reproduced
for this volume. Editing, design, and letterpress printing by Robin
Price. Signed by Cutler-Shaw and Price. Out of print.
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