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The Anatomical Venus

Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susinis Anatomical Venus (c. 1790), a perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges belief. It or, better, she was conceived of as a means to teach human anatomy without need for constant dissection, which was messy, ethically fraught and subject to quick decay. This life-sized wax woman is adorned with glass eyes and human hair and can be dismembered into dozens of parts revealing, at the final remove, a beatific foetus curled in her womb. Sister models soon appeared throughout Europe, where they not only instructed the specialist students, but also delighted the general public. Deftly crafted dissectable female wax models and slashed beauties of the worlds anatomy museums and fairgrounds of the 18th and 19th centuries take centre stage in this disquieting volume. Since their creation in late 18th-century Florence, these wax women have seduced, intrigued and amazed. Today, they also confound, troubling the edges of our neat categorical divides: life and death, science and art, body and soul, effigy and pedagogy, spectacle and education, kitsch and art. Incisive commentary and captivating imagery reveal the evolution of these enigmatic sculptures from wax effigy to fetish figure and the embodiment of the uncanny. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 870g
  • Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 16 May 2016
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780500252185

About Joanna EbensteinMorbid Anatomy Museum

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.

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