Severed â " A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

Larson, Frances

ISBN 10: 0871404540 / ISBN 13: 9780871404541

Edité par Liveright, 2017

First edition. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents. N° de réf. du vendeur 9999-9998377661

Synopsis :

The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects our inner selves to the outer world. Yet there is a dark side to the head's preeminence, one that has, in the course of human history, manifested itself in everything from decapitation to headhunting. So explains anthropologist Frances Larson in this fascinating history of decapitated human heads. From the Western collectors whose demand for shrunken heads spurred massacres to Second World War soldiers who sent the remains of the Japanese home to their girlfriends, from Madame Tussaud modeling the guillotined head of Robespierre to Damien Hirst photographing decapitated heads in city morgues, from grave-robbing phrenologists to skull-obsessed scientists, Larson explores our macabre fixation with severed heads.

À propos de l?auteur: Frances Larson is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Durham and the author of An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World and Severed. She lives in Durham.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Severed â " A History of Heads Lost and ...
Éditeur : Liveright
Date d'édition : 2017
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette
Edition : Edition originale