The Corpse in Art

Teacher or professor: Ask A Mortician
Subject: Medical, Pathology
Content of the Lesson: Draw me like one of your French corpses... ***"Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?" comes out 9/10/19!*** #CatEatEyeballs Preorder "Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?": http://caitlindoughty.com ***WAYS TO SUPPORT AND GROW OUR NON-PROFIT*** Shirts from our Good Death Store: https://thegooddeathstore.com/ Small monthly donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath A one time donation on PayPal: https://bit.ly/2HmgkYs The Co-op Funeral Home of People’s Memorial https://funerals.coop/ ***MORE CONTENT!*** Find our podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2yK6c6G Find our podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2QZEVEM Find our podcast on Google Play: https://bit.ly/2AdEvoj The Order of the Good Death – articles, resources, updates, and more: http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/ My other two books!: http://caitlindoughty.com/books ***WHERE ELSE YOU CAN FIND ME*** Website: http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thegooddeath Facebook: http://ow.ly/Zz8PW Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath ***CREDITS*** Mortician: Caitlin Doughty Producer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Writers: Allison Meier, Caitlin Doughty, Louise Hung Editor & Graphics: Landis Blair (@landisblair) We used our friend Paul Koudounaris' beautiful photos of jeweled skeletons in this video: https://www.amazon.com/Heavenly-Bodies-Treasures-Spectacular-Catacombs/dp/0500251959/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1426611463&sr=8-3&keywords=koudounaris ***SELECTED ADDITIONAL READING*** "15 Things You Should Know About The Raft of the Medusa" http://mentalfloss.com/article/66839/15-things-you-should-know-about-raft-medusa "The Real Corpses That Served as Models for the Doomed Crew of the 'Raft of the Medusa'" https://hyperallergic.com/331446/corpse-models-raft-medusa-gericault/ "Théodore Géricault's Morgue-Based Preparatory Paintings for 'Raft of the Medusa,' A Guest Post by Paul Koudounaris" http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/02/theodore-gericaults-morgue-based.html "7 Amazing Facts About the Sedlec Ossuary" http://mentalfloss.com/article/575129/sedlec-ossuary-facts "Remember that you have to die" https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-10-31/remember-you-have-die "Heritage Ethics and Human Rights of the Dead" Perreault, Kelsey. The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON. July 2018. "The Anatomy of Michelangelo" https://hekint.org/2018/04/11/anatomy-michelangelo-1475-1564/ "The Renaissance Tradition of Using Cadavers in Drawing Classes Is Still Alive" https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-renaissance-tradition-cadavers-drawing-classes-alive "Holbein's dead Christ delivers a shock" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/jun/17/holbein-dead-christ-jonathan-jones "Hans Holbein the Younger, Dead Christ Entombed" https://mavcor.yale.edu/conversations/object-narratives/hans-holbein-younger-dead-christ-entombed "An Intersection Of Science And Art In Rembrandt's 'Anatomy Lesson'" https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/05/29/410488508/an-intersection-of-science-and-art-in-rembrandts-anatomy-lesson "After Joel-Peter Witkin" http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/after-joel-peter-witkin "THE Magazine: Exclusive Interview with Photographer Joel-Peter Witkin" https://santafe.com/article/exclusive-interview-with-joel-peter-witkin "Muerte Sin Fin: Teresa Margolles's Gendered States of Exception" Carroll, Amy Sara. TDR: The Drama Review. New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Summer 2010. "Teresa Margolles's Crime Scene Aesthetics" Bray, Rebecca Scott. South Atlantic Quarterly. Volume 110, September 2011. "TERESA MARGOLLES, MUERTE SIN FIN" http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/teresa-margolles-muerte-sin-fin


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