The Body Illustrated

[Jonathon Burnside]

Abeautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, this head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body is as compulsively readable as it is comprehensive.

'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'

Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts, astonishing stories and now fully illustrated for the first time, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.

A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this new book is an instant classic. It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again. The ideal gift for readers of every age who wish to discover more about themselves.

Remarkable ... Every page is dense with scientific facts written as vividly as a thriller, as well as answers to conundrums such as why we don't fall out of bed when we are asleep ... It is woven through with the kind of human stories that Bryson has made his trademark.

SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019: 'so packed with arresting facts (you eat 60 tons of food in a lifetime) and unlikely anecdotes (such as Isambard Kingdom Brunel's six weeks with a half-sovereign lodged in his throat) that you barely notice the sheer volume of anatomical knowledge you're digesting ... makes complex subjects simple and eminently entertaining.'

For her curatorial introduction to the greater East End art community, Monica Ramirez-Montagut has chosen an unusual and very specific subject, the body and the health of a single artist. The Parrish Art Museum's executive director, who began her position in July, is working with Cristina Kahlo-Alcala (also an artist in the show) to address Frida Kahlo's "dramatic medical history and its sustained impact on her life and work."

"Kahlo: An Expanded Body" is less art exhibition than illustrated doctoral dissertation. The multiple gallery show, opening Sunday, will have more than 100 objects, primarily archival documents and photographs, provided by the Kahlo family through facsimile. Letters, postcards, images, medical records, and other ephemera offer a complex portrait of the artist's relationships with friends and family, colleagues, physicians, and paramours.

Kahlo, a Mexican artist who lived from 1907 to 1954, was known for her paintings, typically self-portraits, in a realist but naive style. These were adopted by Andre Breton as part of the Surrealist movement, about which she appeared ambivalent. She wrote at one time, "Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind, and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself."

Stricken with polio as a child, she planned to study medicine before a bus accident at 18 put her in bed for months in a full body cast with a fractured pelvis and spine. Left with little to do, she took up painting. Her parents helped by having a special easel made for her to paint in bed. Although she recovered, she had chronic pain for the rest of her life.

The presentation begins not with the artist's work (which is limited to a single drawing and two facsimiles, one of a photo), but with a series of anonymous photographs of the American British Cowdray Hospital in Mexico City, where Kahlo's procedures often took place. These are fleshed out with images of Kahlo during periods of wellness and ill health, including Lola Alvarez Bravo's photo of her on her deathbed.

Another gallery explores the heart, a recurring theme in Kahlo's work, through literal and more figurative representations of the heart by other artists. These will include Maria and Tolita Figueroa's "Unos cuantos Piquetitos" (translation: a few small nips), a 30-foot-high red heart (the literal kind) sculpture, which will be suspended from the ceiling. Kahlo had a painting with the same title and it depicts a female figure apparently dead with several knife cuts from a male figure standing over her, including a gaping hole where her heart might be. The curators note that the artist had a regular practice of painting the actual organ outside the body.

Less literal are images of those she loved, among them photos from the early 20th century of her childhood and later snaps of Diego Rivera, her husband, and Leon Trotsky, one of her lovers. A doctor with whom she had developed a close bond over many years of treatment, Juan Farill, is captured in a photo of the artist in a wheelchair. He stands next to her and her painting "Self-Portrait With the Portrait of Doctor Farill" on an easel. In the painting, she uses a heart-shaped palette.

Ms. Kahlo-Alcala will have a number of photographs and lightbox pieces based on her great-aunt's conditions and care. Other photographers whose work is included in the show are Florence Arquin, Gisele Freund, Guillermo Kahlo, Antonio Kahlo, and Nickolas Muray.

Also of note is an interactive installation with a sizable reproduction of "The Dream (the Bed)." The piece will include an actual bed, photos of hospital gowns like the artist wore and used to wipe paint brushes, and a table with postcards for children to use to create their own art to share.

Other contributors to the show, which remains on view until April, are Javier Roque Vazquez Juarez, who is a guest assistant curator, Kaitlin Halloran, the Parrish's curatorial assistant and publications coordinator, and Brianna L. Hernandez, a curatorial fellow.

Your support for The East Hampton Star helps us deliver the news, arts, and community information you need. Whether you are an online subscriber, get the paper in the mail, delivered to your door in Manhattan, or are just passing through, every reader counts. We value you for being part of The Star family.

The optimal use of magnetic resonance imaging poses a constant challenge as the technology is continually and rapidly advancing. This leaves the MR practitioner, beginner or experienced, in constant need of up-to-date, easily read and well illustrated material presenting the clinical constellation of pathologies as seen by an MRI scanner in such an effective way.

MRI of the Whole Body sets out to educate trainee and experienced radiologists, radiographers and clinicians regarding key sequences for optimal imaging of common pathologies, with simple explanations on the choice of a particular MR sequence. The authors present typical and representative examples with relevant clinical and imaging features to assist a better understanding of these commonly encountered conditions. Every unit begins with a quick anatomy review, and each case is described in a standardised format with a clinical background, key sequences, imaging features, and practical hints as to close differentials and ways to distinguish between them. A text of this nature is essential for all MR practitioners whatever their background: medical, technical or scientific.

Key features:

Written in a simple, lucid format and accompanied by typical illustrations to each case MRI of the Whole Body is an essential guide to understanding the 'what's, 'why's and 'how's of applied MR. It will be of particular value to trainee and practicing radiologists, as well as MR radiographers and radiography students.

Kshitij Mankad MRCP FRCR Neuroradiology Fellow, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London, UK; Edward TD Hoey BAO MRCP FRCR Consultant Cardiothoracic Radiologist, Heart of England Foundation Trust; Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham, UK; Amit Lakkaraju FRCR PG MED ED Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist, Goulburn Valley Base Hospital, Shepparton, Australia; Nikhil Bhuskute MS FRCS FRCR Consultant Radiologist, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, UK

At a popular level, Andrew Womack has been teaching on the benefits of discerning man as spirit, soul and body. His ministry has produced a DVD in which lessons are illustrated by animated graphics, and highlighted Scripture with his vocal teaching. The resources is described this way:

Although he places the conscience in the soul (instead of being essentially a spiritual faculty) and makes applications on guaranteed physical healing, the simplicity and visual animations have been helping many find more clarity and freedom.

London: Robert Knaplock, William and John Innys, and Jacob Tonson, 1724.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #003762

Large folio (440 x 320 mm). [12], lxxvii [1], 194 pp. Signatures: [*A]2 *B-*C2 a-t2 v2 B-3D2 (-v2, -3D2). Engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, double-page engraved table of the Syllabus musculorum bound after v1, and 67 engraved plates after Rubens and Raphael numbered 1-66 (with plate 13 in two states), engraved text illustrations, diagrams, initials, head- and tail-pieces. Without the two blank leaves v2 and 3D2. Bound in contemporary full calfskin, spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label, 6 raised bands and rich gilt tooling; boards blind-tooled and ruled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, original endpapers (expertly recornered and rebacked, minor wear to extremities, corners bumped). Crisp and bright throughout internally with just some minor spotting and finger-soiling in places; outer margins of endpapers, frontispiece and title little browned from binder's glue; plate 7 misbound after 8; two short wormtracks near gutter of final leaves. In all an exceptional copy. ----

FIRST FOLIO EDITION, remarkable not only for the quality of the large plates but for "the ingenious historiated initials wittily decorated with myotomical motifs" (Norman). The first edition of Cowper's treatise on the muscular system of the human body was published in 1694 as a modest octavo with 10 plates. Cowper worked until his death on this greatly expanded edition, which was published 13 years later under the supervision and at the expense of the physician Richard Mead (1673-1754). With its 66 plates, some after Rubens and Raphael, its witty engraved initials and dramatic head- and tail-piece illustrations, this first folio edition ranks among the most artistically inventive anatomical atlases of the 17th and 18th centuries.

References: Norman 530; Choulant-Frank, p.253; Garrison-Morton 392.1; Wellcome II, p.401; Roberts & Tomlinson pp. 415-17; Russell 210; Heirs of Hippocrates 723. - Visit our website to see more images!

3a8082e126