Foreword • Introduction • 1. Wax • 2. Theology/History/Italy • 3. Theatre/Fairground/ Spectacle • 4. Eroticism/Romanticism/Gender • 5. Aesthetics and Death • 6. The Uncanny • 7. Surrealism • Afterword
Deftly crafted dissectable female wax models take centre-stage in this disquieting volume for fans of the macabre, the ghoulish and medical history
Joanna Ebenstein is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator,
writer, lecturer and graphic designer. She runs the Morbid Anatomy
blog and website, and founded the Morbid Anatomy Museum. Ebenstein
photographs, curates and collects artefacts, images and texts
relating to curious collections, early museums and cabinets of
curiosity, collectors and collecting, medical museums and museums
of natural history.
The Morbid Anatomy Museum was founded by Joanna Ebenstein and is
located in Brooklyn, New York.
'Wonderful and epically illustrated' - Telegraph
'Fabulous … A mesmerising marriage of art and science' - Tatler
'Joanna Ebenstein's sumptuous book is fascinated by this era in
which the study of nature was also the study of philosophy; in
which a body created for medical purposes could also be read as a
work of art' - Guardian
'An enchanting and repulsive book' - Huffington Post
'What Ebenstein argues is beguiling to our contemporary brains is
that the figures weren't strictly medical, but beautiful as well' -
vice.com
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