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The stories behind the books - Harvard Gazette

Harvard's library collection includes books that use layered images, movable elements, and raised type to create interactive, tactile, and accessible reading experiences.
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1 month ago

I had to plunge the knife into the canvas': Edita Schubert wielded her scalpel like other artists wield a brush

She was producing these really precise, technical illustrations which were used in medical textbooks, says David Crowley, curator of a new retrospective of Schubert's work at Muzeum Susch, in eastern Switzerland. She was right in the middle of that practice She was totally unfazed about being in dissections. Her anatomical drawings, notes Marika Kuzmicz, the museum's curator, are still published in handbooks for medical students in Croatia today.
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1 month ago

Anatomical exhibition includes rare Victorian-era drawing of a black body

Joseph Maclise's anatomical art centered Black bodies and queer desire, including a rare Victorian anatomical portrait of a Black man omitted from US editions.
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