Body’s images between evidence and visibility

Abstract

The article aims to investigate some aspects of the artful and mediate medical iconography’s nature, interpreted as a genre translating physical data into intelligible categories, through processes leading to imaginative drifts strictly related to the art’s rules, myths and simulacra. From traditional representations to contemporary biomedical imaging, through photography and cinema, three proposed categories (Horizontal bodies; Vertical bodies; Oblique bodies) suggest a continuity of intents and outcomes, opened up to a representation of subjectivity naturally implied into objective body representations.