Independent body parts  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Study of Hands (1715) by Nicolas de Largillière

Flower (16th century) by Joos van Cleve from Madonna and Child

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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

Keywords

Severed, disembodied, dismembered.

In visual arts

• The Rape by Magritte
• Study of Truncated Limbs by Théodore Géricault
• L'Ultrameuble by Kurt Seligmann here.
• The Rough Boy video clip by ZZ Top. dailymotion
• The Swingin' Eye!!!!!!!! cover
• "Such Things are or a peep into Kensington Gardens"
• "The Hell of Great Heat"
• L'Arétin français frontispiece

See also

• Talking body parts
• Human body
• Human furniture
• List of films about independent body parts
• Inanimate