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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. Twenty pages of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia copy of the 1495 Fasciculus Medicinae were reproduced for this volume. The artist, Joyce Cutler-Shaw, 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. 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. 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. A hologram on the front cover features an early eighteenth-century brass lancet. Drawings by Joyce Cutler-Shaw. Photogravures of drawings by Jon Goodman. Introduction and editorial assistance by Dr. William Shupbach, The Wellcome Library, London. Editing, design, and letterpress printing by Robin Price with the assistance of Anne Thompson. Handmade cotton paper by John and Kathy Koller at HMP in Woodstock, CT. Hologram produced by DuPont Authentication Systems. Engraved stainless steel box by Pina Zangaro. Concertina binding co-designed by Daniel E. Kelm, Robin Price, and Joyce Cutler Shaw. Binding produced by Kelm with the assistance of Kylin Lee, Erin Clay Nelson (formerly Erin Cook). Photogravure, letterpress printing, hologram, concertina binding on linen tapes, with stainless steel box. Held in private collections. You may request to see Anatomy Lesson at:
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