Special Dossier: DEATH – "BODY WORLDS” by Gunther von Hagens,

In between Imagery and References I must add an especial post about an exhibition that I never saw but which I really would like to see. I’m talking about "BODY WORLDS” an exhibition where more than 200 specimens preserved by a process called plastination, including two-dozen whole-body dissections.

The brainchild of German-born anatomist Gunther von Hagens, the provocative, sometimes controversial "BODY WORLDS” has caused a sensation in every city it has visited in the past 10 years.

The exhibition is extremely graphic and wildly popular:
" Some of the athletic poses, such as the hand-standing skateboarder, are oddly exuberant considering they are made of skinless flesh, while the skeletons pondering and praying also might elicit a chuckle. The multifarious poses concocted by Gunther von Hagens' Institute for Plastination transcend the educational mission. There is an aesthetic element and one of entertainment. "It's obviously a form of art,"
said Elaine Liddell, 82y.o