Research Catalog

Title

The Morbid Anatomy anthology / edited by Joanna Ebenstein and Colin Dickey.

Publication

• Brooklyn, New York : Morbid Anatomy Press, [2014]
• ©2014

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Ebenstein, Joanna, 1971-
• Dickey, Colin

Description

8 unnumbered pages, 491 pages : color illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Since 2008, the Morbid Anatomy Library of Brooklyn, New York, has hosted some of the best scholars, artists and writers working along the intersections of the history of anatomy and medicine, death and the macabre, religion and spectacle. The Morbid Anatomy Anthology collects some of the best of this work in 28 lavishly illustrated essays. Included are essays by Evan Michelson (star of Science Channel's hit show Oddities) on the catacombs of Palermo; Simon Chaplin (head of the Wellcome Library in London) on public displays of corpses in Georgian England; mortician Caitlin Doughty on demonic children; and Paul Koudounaris (author of Empire of Death) on a truck stop populated with human skulls. In addition are pieces on books bound in human skin, death-themed cafes in fin-de-siècle Paris, post-mortem photography, eroticized anatomical wax models, taxidermied humans and other animals, Santa Muerte, "artist of death" Frederik Ruysch, and much more.0.

Subjects

• Human body > Social aspects
• Human anatomy > History
• Death > Social aspects
• Taxidermy
• Dead
• Postmortem photography
• Human body in popular culture

Note

• Twenty-eight essays based on lectures hosted by Morbid Anatomy Library of Brooklyn, New York since 2008.
• "On my blog Morbid Anatomy, I have excavated the history of and material culture of death ... The greater Morbid Anatomy project has now expanded considerably beyond the blog to include the Morbid Anatomy Library, my own research library and collection of curiosities open to the public; the forthcoming Morbid Anatomy Museum, also in Brooklyn, New York; the Morbid Anatomy Press ... and 'Morbid Anatomy Presents', a series of lectures and workshops held around the world."--Foreword (Ebenstein), page 4.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

What a Wonderful World / David Pescovitz -- Giuliu Camillo: Renaissance Scholar, Con Man, & Father of the Kabbalistic Theatre / Mel Gordon -- Staging the Unconscious / Zoe Beloff -- Memento Mori: Reflections on the Art of the Tableau / Amy Herzog -- The Birth of Venus / Joanna Ebenstein -- Tough / Carl Schoonover -- A Philosophy of Wax: The Anatomy of Frederik Ruysch / Dániel Margócsy -- Naples: In The Court of Miracles / Chiara Ambrosio -- Ghost Images: The Curious Afterlife of Postmortem Photographs / Mark Dery -- Stuffed Humans / Pat Morris -- At the [Human] Zoo: A Sampling of Ethnographic Exhibitions on the Modern World / Elizabeth L. Bradley -- The Withering Crowd / Evan Michelson -- Look Not Upon Them! Maternity & the Monstrous Imagination / Stephen T. Asma -- Demonic Children & Their Curious Absence in the European Witch Trials / Caitlin Doughty -- Anatomy or an Ottamy? Bodies on Show in Georgian London / Simon Chaplin -- Staging Science at Wellcome Collection: Anatomical Models in Context / Kate Forde -- Soap Stories: The Mysterious Life & Dreadful Afterlife of the Mütter Museum's Adipocere Body / Richard Faulk -- The False Atrium: Notes on Mourning / Colin Dickey -- Skulls and Big Rigs: The World's Strangest Truck Stop / Paul Koudounaris -- Empress and Lover: Personifying Death in Mexico / Salvador Olguín -- Morbid Curiosity Meets Morbid Anatomy / Richard Harris -- Death and Doctor Buchan / Ross MacFarlane -- Bound In Human Skin: A Survey of Examples of Anthropodermic Bibliopegy / Daniel K. Smith -- The Devil in Three Dimensions / Ronni Thomas -- Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class / Amber Jolliffe -- The Spiritualists / Shannon Taggart -- On the Non-Denial Denial of Death / John Troyer -- Hell Époque: Death-Themed Cabarets & Other Macabre Entertainments of Nineteenth Century Paris / Vadim Kosmos.

Call Number

JFD 16-2502

ISBN

• 9780989394307
• 0989394301

OCLC

873756749

Title

The Morbid Anatomy anthology / edited by Joanna Ebenstein and Colin Dickey.

Publisher

Brooklyn, New York : Morbid Anatomy Press, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Ebenstein, Joanna, 1971- editor.

Dickey, Colin, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-2502