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The Mutter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the Mutter Museum, founded in 1858, is part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. This book features over 100 photographs by a select group of renowned photographers whose work appears in the award-winning Mutter Museum calendars. Highlights include a bust of an early-19...more
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
October 7th 2002
by Blast Books
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Right, here's where things get artsy: Wegman's dog eating out of a pelvis, noir angles of Chang and Eng's plaster casts, etc. Some of these assemblages are pretty fun, but others are a load of wank. I mean, really, did you need to wrap that cylinder of "tanned human skin" (used to help "plan surgical incisions") around some tattooed fellow's head? And what's with the "Christmas Brain"? Red lid, yellowy brain, green brain solution? That's what passes for aesthetic wit now?
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I discovered the Mutter Museum in the 1990s because of the lovely morbid calendars my local bookshop sold. The calendars featured amazing, thought-provoking photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin, Rosamond Purcell, and Arne Svenson, taken in the collection of the medical museum. Those incredible photos, in all their glory, are assembled in this book.
Unfortunately, the calendar photos by William Wegman are included, too. The inclusion of the dogs mocking the pose of Chang and Eng's post-autopsy death m...more
Unfortunately, the calendar photos by William Wegman are included, too. The inclusion of the dogs mocking the pose of Chang and Eng's post-autopsy death m...more
The Mutter Museum is one of the oddest places I've ever been. Housing the 19th century specimens (mostly medical curiosities) of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the museum seems straight out of the Addams Family. They've got shrunken heads, the Soap Lady, the plaster death cast of Chang and Eng (the Siamese Twins), a colon that stretched to nine feet in length, the thorax of John Wilkes Booth, and all sorts of misshapen skulls, skeletons, and limbs in formaldehyde.
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Nonfiction anecdotes about the strange and weird specimens in the Mutter Museum's collection. Plenty of pictures, and a insightful essay by Worden.
Very interesting book. I finally got to visit the Mutter Museum on my first trip to Philadelphia a few years ago. Loved it. It was creepy and weird and gross. Just my thing.
Very creepy photos. Responding to these images would be a good creative writing exercise. The truth is stranger than fiction.
This book is a pictoral journey through the exhibits and artifacts in the Mütter Museum. Highly artistic photographs by various photographers document all aspects of the human body from prosthetic limbs and maps of veins to malformed skeletons and afflicted fetuses. All photos are credited and labeled with the medium of the specimen photographed. When pertinent the medical condition of the specimen is discussed and sometimes the background information as well. This is a very straight- forward me...more
I like the other Mutter Museum book better, but they are both worth checking out.
The Wegman pics sorta freaked me out! Even more than the others :)
In my never-ending morbid curiosity, I got this book just to scan the pictures. The conjoined twins are especially fascinating, as are the many wax models of various abnormalities. The book states that the collection used to be used as teaching tools for med students, but modern medicine has replaced much of what is there with sophisticated radiography. Still, it is fascinating to me how much they DID know back then. And how much we know today and, as such, miss the anatomical variety, at least...more
Ewwww!
Fascinating photographs, this book has a lot of pictures of fetus skeletons which made me feel a little uncomfortable. The early surgical photos of amputees, and bullet wounds make you feel grateful to live in the 21st century.
Wish it had more pictures - the museum itself is cooler, but, still interesting.
Attempts at artfulness in this book distract from its value.
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