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A transformative guide to embrace your own mortality and live a more fulfilling lifeWe’re all going to die. Talking about death has been deemed morbid, taboo, or even pathological. But in order to fully embrace life, scientists, psychologists, and spiritual leaders all agree—contemplating death is the key to living a life with meaning.This life-changing book will give you a 12 week program to befriend death in your own way, creating your own p...

A lavishly illustrated guide to the magnum opus of the great seventeenth-century anatomist, master embalmer, artist, and collector of specimens.Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) was a celebrated Dutch anatomist, master embalmer, and museologist. He is best remembered today for strange tableaux, crafted from fetal skeletons and other human remains, that flicker provocatively at the edges of science, art, and memento mori. Ruysch exhibited these piece...

Der schön gestaltete Band vereint einige der bemerkenswertesten, faszinierendsten und seltsamsten Kunstwerke des 16. bis 20. Jahrhunderts zur Darstellung der menschlichen Anatomie. Die Jahrhunderte alte Faszination hinterließ eine Fülle von Kunstwerken, die nicht nur die Fakten des menschlichen Körpers aufzeigen, sondern auch die Art und Weise, wie sich unsere Vorstellungen über den Körper und seine Darstellung im Laufe der Zeit verändert haben.

. Visually strong set of illustrations given prominence for the first time in a book. Anatomical illustration is frequently referenced in contemporary visual culture: this is the ultimate source.. Great subject for artists, medics, and above all, enthusiasts of macabre subject matterFor centuries, humankind has sought to know itself through an understanding of the body, in sickness and in health, inside and out. This fascination left in its wa...

A volume of unprecedented breadth and sinister beauty, Death: A Graveside Companion examines a staggering range of cultural attitudes to death within seven themed chapters. Nineteen experts contribute thought-provoking essays on specific aspects of humanity's cultural legacy of ideas concerning death. The essays are followed by gallery pages presenting a breathtaking variety of death-related imagery drawn from every major culture, from Neolith...

Explores the strange and fascinating history of eroticised anatomical wax models.

At head of title: Morbid Anatomy Museum.

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