REPRESENTATIONS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY HUMAN BODY: MAKING SENSE OF THE NUTTALL COLLECTION OF LANTERN SLIDES

Ine van DOOREN,Sarah DELLMANN


Abstract

Taking the slide collection of medical expert professor G.H.F. Nuttall as a starting point, this article investigates the representations of the extraordinary human body in West-Europe lantern history and lantern heritage between 1880 and 1930. To explain the at first sight unfamiliar image repertoire of this collection, the authors place the object, the medium and the aesthetical representations in a historical and cultural frame and compare the material on two levels