Body Worlds - art with ... bodies
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Body Worlds: The Anatomy of Happiness exhibition in London. Anyone seen it? It looks scary!
On a similar theme, I visited the Hunterian Museum about 10 years ago and found that interesting. I'm not sure enjoyable is the word to use for looking at body parts in jars. The best bit was the skeleton with gigantism, but that's been taken away now.
This new exhibition in South Kensington is something else entirely and I think I might be too squeamish for it!
On a similar theme, I visited the Hunterian Museum about 10 years ago and found that interesting. I'm not sure enjoyable is the word to use for looking at body parts in jars. The best bit was the skeleton with gigantism, but that's been taken away now.
This new exhibition in South Kensington is something else entirely and I think I might be too squeamish for it!
I saw this in Berlin a few years ago.
It is quite fascinating and I did detach from my mind that these were actually real people who had donated their bodies to be forever preserved and displayed to the public.
I imagine it is very useful for those in the medical profession. It kinda reminded me of my 'A' level art class where the teacher used to get body builders in as models so we could better understand the positioning of muscles. (This was the 1970s).
If this is your thing, I can highly recommend the Surgeons' Museum in Edinburgh. Thousands of things pickled in jars. The one item that stood out was a pelvis with bone cancer that more resembled coral.
It is quite fascinating and I did detach from my mind that these were actually real people who had donated their bodies to be forever preserved and displayed to the public.
I imagine it is very useful for those in the medical profession. It kinda reminded me of my 'A' level art class where the teacher used to get body builders in as models so we could better understand the positioning of muscles. (This was the 1970s).
If this is your thing, I can highly recommend the Surgeons' Museum in Edinburgh. Thousands of things pickled in jars. The one item that stood out was a pelvis with bone cancer that more resembled coral.
Edited by Slow.Patrol on Saturday 10th October 18:31
I think it’s fascinating, educational and rather macabre.
When I was younger they televised the live autopsy in london that he carried out.
However, there are massive controversies over the sourcing of some of the bodies.
He was forced to return some of them back to china about 20 years ago and I don’t doubt that there are still questionable sourcing methods.
When I was younger they televised the live autopsy in london that he carried out.
However, there are massive controversies over the sourcing of some of the bodies.
He was forced to return some of them back to china about 20 years ago and I don’t doubt that there are still questionable sourcing methods.
I saw it in London 20 odd years ago.
As soon as I entered I forgot that these had originally been people and animals. They look like very detailed medical models, albeit posed. Maybe that's just me.
It wasn't macabre or sensationalist, just rather fascinating and quite educational. I learned, for example, that everybody has tumours in their body and that they generally don't turn cancerous.
As soon as I entered I forgot that these had originally been people and animals. They look like very detailed medical models, albeit posed. Maybe that's just me.
It wasn't macabre or sensationalist, just rather fascinating and quite educational. I learned, for example, that everybody has tumours in their body and that they generally don't turn cancerous.
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