KROPPEN KONST OCH VETENSKAP (The Body Art and Science).

Author: Holger, Lena, ed
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish/English Captions & Summary
Year Published: 2005
No. of pages: 283
Illustrations: 172 Color Illustrations. 198 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 11”x 9”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 9171007229
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index.
Code: 5531

Price: $125.00

This book presents a wealth of research into mankind’s continual inquisitiveness about what the body looks like inside and out, how it functions and malfunctions, how it has been used for different purposes, been the subject of experiments, surgery and recitification of every kind from the past until the present. Ten writers have contributed, each from their own special point of view and detailed study of the subject. The book is divided into themes to shed light on the human body through the anatomical body and the dead body as a source of knowledge about life. It elucidates hermaphroditism and the construction of gender, it focuses on comtemporary use of the body in relation to earlier art and to science today. And it depicts the body as an instrument and subject of research.