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The Lady Anatomist

Just started this book--and it's a finalist for the Morey Award for books in art history. So far so good.

Schlafende Ariadne by Michael Triegel, mixed media on canvas, 2010

Who doesn't love ear trumpets?

Reminds me of this:

Academic Paper Title of the Day

Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance

Shout out to Ugly Renaissance Babies

http://uglyrenaissancebabies.tumblr.com/


And I have my own addition:

Terrifying Ceramics Day

"Psoriasis"

God knows what this is called. It had better not have some kind of Sylvia Plath poem name.

Ways to show skin on Halloween: Dress like a skeleton?

Apparently adding flesh to skeletons makes them sexy:

Problems with the 1950s: Women douched with Lysol

It was also understood as a form of birth control in some areas, but the lines are blurry since, you know, nobody talked about it. But you can tell the companies are trying to pursue an unhealthy fear of women's own bodies, that apparently have smells so strong as to act as a forcefield against their husbands:







Oh, and Listerine was introduced as a less abrasive alternative...

Everything you ever wanted to browse on the subject...

Unless you're me of course... But it also has a few pictures and links to the finest lady ever to expose her organs to perfect strangers, the Susini Venus at La Specola:

If you're looking for a book linking botany, gynecology, and Edwardian sensibilities, boy do I have the book for you

I am finally reading this book, and it is blowing my mind like a... well all of the metaphors just sound dirty now. I will never look at orchids the same way again. {from the Latin orchis meaning testicle, for those interested}.



In any case, a gorgeous book that is a delight to read, not only for its naughty sense of humor, but also for the writer's colorful vocabulary. Here are a few of my favorite images from the book:

Hands, Hearts, and Eyes

Insanely hip, mesmerizing, and uncannily nostalgic graphics from the zinescape's masters of juxtaposition, Craphound:



And a video:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/947849256/crap-hound-no-5-hands-hearts-and-eyes-3rd-edition

Popular Science Monthly, 1895

"Another important sacerdotal function is the cleansing of milk pails, churns, and other vessels used in the dairy from demonaic infection, which is frequently caused by women touching such vessels during menstruation."

X-Ray Souls - give skeletons to things that never thought they had them!

Monstrum figura genitalis viri

Monster in the shape of male genitals, Aldrovandi, Historia Monstrorum, 1642

Things People Died From - A Very Strange List

Creepy-ass Plague Doctor Costume from the 16th Century

Deep Thoughts by Robert Hooke

On looking at ice forming on urine under a microscope:

"Tafting several cleer pieces of this Ice, I could not find any Urinous tafte in them, but thofe few I tafted, feem'd as infipid as water."

"If you take any cleer and fmooth Glafs, and wetting all the infide of it with Urine, you expofe it to a very fharp freezing, you will find it cover'd with a very regular and curious figure."

Wonder how he got his results?

Shells and sea-things 1

And more:
http://guntherstephan.blogspot.com/2009/03/sea-monsters.html

On Snow in the 17th century

More poignant points on our corporeal being via music video

Menomena - Muscle and Flow