Joanna Ebenstein (3)
Anatomica
the Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy
2020 || Ongedefinieerd || Joanna Ebenstein || Laurence King Publishing
For 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 wake a rich body of artworks that demonstrate not only the facts of the human body, but also the ways in which our ideas about the body and its proper representation have changed over time.
At times both beautiful and unsettling, illustrated anatomy continues to hold our interest today, and is frequently referenced in popular culture...
Death
A Graveside Companion
2024 || Hardcover || Joanna Ebenstein || Thames & Hudson Ltd
The ultimate death compendium, featuring the world’s most extraordinary artistic and ethnographic objects concerned with mortality, together with text by expert contributors.
The Anatomical Venus
Wax / Sex / God / Death
2024 || Hardcover || Morbid Anatomy Museum e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susini's Anatomical Venus (c. 1790), a perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges belief. This title reveals the evolution of the enigmatic sculptures from wax effigy to fetish figure and the embodiment of the uncanny.