Growth Spiral Susan Dorothea White pastel, 1986

PRESENTATIONS, ARTICLES, REFERENCES

2012 Ebb and Flow. A course of lectures in dynamic embryology with special reference to changing balance, structures and their functions within the human body; presented by Brian Freeman, Bath UK: Feb 17–19

2012 Insights – How Visual Art Helps Us Understand the Human Body; half-day workshop presented by Susan Dorothea White, Bath UK: Feb 17–19. Full-day Drawing Workshop: conducted by Susan Dorothea White, Bath, UK, Feb. 20

For further information on Bath 2012 presentations, please email biobook@aol.com

Bibliography of articles, films, books by Erich Blechschmidt, his students and followers

Bibliography of articles by Eben J Carey (1889–1947) on histogenesis and muscle

Sources for slides used in Brian Freeman's presentations on human embryology

New Concepts of Chemical and Biological Structure... by EB Cohen (1984, pdf, 1 MB)

BOOK

The Ontogenetic Basis of Human Anatomy

The Ontogenetic Basis of Human Anatomy  is Brian Freeman's translation & annotation of Anatomie und Ontogenese des Menschen by Erich Blechschmidt. The translation is published by North Atlantic Press (2004).

ARCHIVE: ANATOMY DRAWING WORKSHOPS – STEP INTO LEONARDO'S SHOES...

University of New South Wales, 2000–2007

In 2000, Susan Dorothea White and Brian Freeman co-established public anatomy drawing workshops at The University of New South Wales. The workshops were held in the Anatomy Laboratory (Dissecting Room) of the university's Department of Anatomy and gave the public a rare opportunity to draw actual human specimens that were normally seen only by medical and science students. Intensive 5-day workshops were held twice a year during the summer and winter university recess, when the absence of students meant that the laboratory was quiet and suitable as a 'drawing room'. Other workshops were conducted on weekends, which aslo provided a unique, contemplative atmosphere. The workshops attracted interstate and international participants from all walks of life, from surgeons to train drivers, artists to crime writers, builders to physicists. Students and professionals in art, as well as tertiary art teachers, also attended.

Drawing in the Anatomy Laboratory

Drawing in the Anatomy Laboratory

Press articles on Anatomy Drawing Workshops (extracts)

'...The mystique of the body is stripped away, parts named. The trapezius muscle is the "monk's hood", the latissimus dorsi is "the bottom scratcher", the levator scapulae "the muscle of indifference". At the art history lecture, White introduces the class to images of the body in art, the ways it has been represented in different cultures. There's Rodin's Thinker, a graceful Degas, a Fernand Léger abstract, dancer Sir Robert Helpmann - "a real artist of movement", White says - figurines from Angkor Wat, a delicate sculpture of a hand from Camille Claudel, works by Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo, Hokusai, and finally, of course, da Vinci. For those wanting to hone their art skills, there's plenty of material to work with...'

'The University of New South Wales last week provided a rare chance for people from artists to plastic surgeons to take up the Leonardo da Vinci role by sketching body parts from the university's collection. The weokshop seeks to revive old skills and bring together science and art. Specimens used in the School of Medical Sciences annual Leonardo workshop are embalmed and professionally dissected parts from bodies donated to the university for study....Artist Susan Dorothea White gave artistic guidance during the week-long workshop. Ms White said that by discovering what is under the skin, participants improve their skills in rendering the human form...Sketching sessions were interspersed with illustrated talks on the influence of anatomy in art history, with slides of works by artists such as da Vinci, Rodin, Alice Neel, and Hokusai...'

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