The Anatomical Venus

ISBN-13: 9780500252185 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 224 str.

Joanna Ebenstein

Opis

Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susini's Anatomical Venus (c. 1790), a perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges belief. This title reveals the evolution of the enigmatic sculptures from wax effigy to fetish figure and the embodiment of the uncanny.

Recenzje

'Wonderful and epically illustrated' - Telegraph

Spis treści

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

O autorze

The Morbid Anatomy Museum was founded by Joanna Ebenstein and is located in Brooklyn, New York. 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. She is the author of Death and The Anatomical Venus.