Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus
A Morbid Guide
$72.81
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
20 September 2022
Summary
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 pieces, along with hundreds of other artful sp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262046039 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262046032 |
| Author: | Joanna Ebenstein |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 20 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 1.24kg |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 203mm x 1mm |
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“this is an astonishing book, which is both a wonderful artistic and scientific treat.” - Leonardo
“The new translation is buttressed with essays from Ebenstein’s expert collaborators—anatomical practitioners, curators, historians of art and science—and a generous, if challenging, selection of images, featuring engravings of the famous tableaux and photographs of the original cabinets and surviving wet specimens in their jars. All these combine to resurrect Ruysch’s collection and to recover a sense of his idiosyncratic curatorial style: a combination of anatomically precise annotations and wistful memento mori epitaphs, seasoned with P.T. Barnum levels of boosterism and denunciations of his rival anatomists.”
–New York Review of Books
“This is an astonishing book, which is both a wonderful artistic and scientific treat.”
–Leonardo
About The Author
Joanna Ebenstein
Joanna Ebenstein is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, curator, photographer, and graphic designer. She is the creator of the Morbid Anatomy blog, library, and event series and cofounded the now-shuttered Morbid Anatomy Museum.
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