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Wen to the Science Museum today. Saw Body Worlds. For those who haven't heard of it, this is a traveling exhibit created by a German anatomist of actual preserved human bodies.
Since it involves actual bodies, there is, of course, a lot of controversy surrounding the exhibit. But there's nothing at the exhibit that's really shocking or explotive. Much of the exhibit is simply organs, limbs, or cross-sections, comparing healthy tissue with damaged or diseased tissue. If it were just those, I seriously dount anyone would object. It's the whole, posed bodies that seem to bother people. Maybe because all the men have their penises and all the women have their breasts. Who knows.
What I found most interesting was that you could see the progression of the creator. The early full-body pieces mainly just stood there, in the classic "class room skeleton" pose, with work done to expose whatever portion he wanted to show (muscles, joints, etc). The ones done a few years later were posed, often in action poses that emphasised the movment of the muscles in a particualr portion of the body, say the shoulder or the legs. It was the most recent ones that where artistic as well as educational. One done this year showed a kneeling woman releasing two pigeons, who had both been reduced to their cardiovascular system. Very neat.
Anyway, I am definately never taking up smoking. Those cross-sections were... the lungs were riddled with holes from where the chemicals are dissolved the air sacs. Ick.
Since it involves actual bodies, there is, of course, a lot of controversy surrounding the exhibit. But there's nothing at the exhibit that's really shocking or explotive. Much of the exhibit is simply organs, limbs, or cross-sections, comparing healthy tissue with damaged or diseased tissue. If it were just those, I seriously dount anyone would object. It's the whole, posed bodies that seem to bother people. Maybe because all the men have their penises and all the women have their breasts. Who knows.
What I found most interesting was that you could see the progression of the creator. The early full-body pieces mainly just stood there, in the classic "class room skeleton" pose, with work done to expose whatever portion he wanted to show (muscles, joints, etc). The ones done a few years later were posed, often in action poses that emphasised the movment of the muscles in a particualr portion of the body, say the shoulder or the legs. It was the most recent ones that where artistic as well as educational. One done this year showed a kneeling woman releasing two pigeons, who had both been reduced to their cardiovascular system. Very neat.
Anyway, I am definately never taking up smoking. Those cross-sections were... the lungs were riddled with holes from where the chemicals are dissolved the air sacs. Ick.
