Digital BW, The Print

If this started in the US then people would have freaked out 
completely. People really are more open in a lot of other places in the 
world.

This one sounds particularly funny for some reason;
"One exhibit shows the corpse of a man seated on a rearing horse 
holding a human brain in his left hand and a horse's brain in his right 
- for purposes of comparison."

I think the ones that take on an unnatural form (muscles flying off in 
weird directions etc..) are more vulgar/unethical for the reasons of 
respect to the dead etc..

-mh

ps I think you can't really compare them to Hirst. He dealt more with 
death (trapped, rotting, etc..) while these seem to be more about life 
and anatomy (plastic appearance w/ natural, almost playful, poses)


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Johnny Deadman <john@p...> 
wrote:
> on 10/23/01 7:18 PM, Jerry Olson at jerryolson@r... wrote:
> 
> > Anyone see the segmented cow exhibit? Some idiot froze a cow, and sawed
> > it into thin slices, then encased them in acrylic and placed each of
> > about a dozen or so pieces about 2 feet apart. Is this really art, or
> > just plain vanilla cow abuse?
> 
> one of the most popular exhibits in German of recent years (I think I have
> this right) was some extraordinary peeled and preserved corpses of former
> human beings. I only saw it on TV but it was pretty amazing.
> 
> Here are a few links that give you an idea. Makes Damien Hirst look tame
> (and dull)
> 
> 
> http://chinadaily.com.cn.net/star/2001/0913/fe19-1.html
> 
> http://www.beachbrowser.com/Archives/eVoid/April-2001/Plasticized-Corpse-Exh
> ibit.htm
> 
>     
> -- 
> John Brownlow
> 
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