Independent body parts
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- Dismembered limbs, a severed head, a hand cut off at the wrist, as in a fairy tale of Wilhelm Hauff's, feet which dance by themselves, as in the book by Albrecht Schaeffer which I mentioned above--all these have something peculiarly uncanny about them, especially when, as in the last instance, they prove capable of independent activity in addition. --The Uncanny (1919) - Sigmund Freud
This page is dedicated to body parts which are shown indepedently from the human body as if they had been severed or dismembered. Another term is disembodied.
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In visual arts
Painting
- The Rape by Magritte
- Study of Truncated Limbs by Théodore Géricault
- Anatomical Pieces by Théodore Géricault
Sculpture
Video clip
- The Rough Boy video clip by ZZ Top. dailymotion
Record cover
- The Swingin' Eye!!!!!!!! cover
- Cha Cha Cha cover
Printmaking
- "Such Things are or a peep into Kensington Gardens"
- "The Hell of Great Heat"
- L'Arétin français frontispiece
By body part
Head
- Severed Heads by Géricault
Torso
- The Rape by Magritte
Legs
- Study of Truncated Limbs by Théodore Géricault
- Anatomical Pieces by Théodore Géricault
- L'Ultrameuble by Kurt Seligmann
- The Rough Boy video clip by ZZ Top.
- The Swingin' Eye!!!!!!!! cover
Genitalia
- Testa di cazzi by Francisco Urbini
- The Old Harlot's Dream by Thomas Rowlandson
- Such Things are or a peep into Kensington Gardens by Thomas Rowlandson
- Un priape marchant sur des pattes de coq by Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville
- The Hell of Great Heat by by Japanese artist Kunisada or Toyokuni
- Le Phallus phénoménal by Dominique Vivant
- L'Arétin français frontispiece by François-Rolland Elluin after drawings by Antoine Borel
Real life
See also
- Talking body parts
- Human body
- Human furniture
- List of films about independent body parts
- The Belly and the Other Members
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