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The aesthetics of the living body have long fascinated artists working in every medium of art. Mutter Museum presents the work of a distinguished group of photographers who have been drawn to explore the body stripped of its superficial coverings down to its inner realities. There is real beauty beneath the surface both in life, as revealed by the surgeon's scalpel, and in death, as revealed by the pathologist's or anatomist's knife. The contemporary photographs in this book, combined with powerful images from the Museum's historical photography collection, stretch the boundaries to find beauty not in its conventional form, but in its opposite: the deformed, the broken, the disfigured body of those who suffered physical abnormality, trauma, or destructive disease. There is a terrifying beauty as well in the spirits of those who endured nature's challenges to human life and to medical understanding.

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Book category Books in English The arts Photography & photographs Photographs: collections

• Full title: Mutter Museum
• Subtitle: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
• Author: Gretchen Worden
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780922233243
• ISBN: 0922233241
• ID: 09237147
• Publisher: Blast Books,U.S.
• Weight: 1261 g
• Dimensions: 279 × 228 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. October 2002

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