Susan Dorothea White Bibliography

Body Manifold: Mathematics (Mis)performed by Vitruvian and Acephalic Bodies

In discussing the history of graphic interpretations of Vitruvius’s “well-shaped man”, Salazar-Sutil notes Susan Dorothea White’s Sex Change for Vitruvian Man (2005). The work is cited as a contemporary reinterpretation that raises questions about the gender-specific nature of Western studies of human proportion and bodily geometry.

Note 1, p. 19:
Some of the artists that attempted to render Vitruvius' description in graphic manner include: Cesare Caesariano (1521), Albrecht Dürer (1528), Pietro di Giacomo Cataneo (1554), Heinrich Lautensack (1618), William Blake (1795), and Susan Dorothea White, whose version Sex Change for Vitruvian Man (2005) raised questions regarding the gender specific nature of existing studies on human proportion and bodily geometry in Western art.