Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed

by Elizabeth Hallam

The wild success of the traveling Body Worlds exhibition is testimony to the powerful allure that human bodies can have when opened up for display in gallery spaces. But while anatomy museums have shown their visitors much about bodies, they themselves are something of an obscure phenomenon, with their incredible technological developments and complex uses of visual images and the flesh itself remaining largely under researched. This book investigates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861893752
• ISBN13: 9781861893758
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.8" x 9.3"