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From Imagination to Ideologem. Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds

Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2015

Abstract

This article analyzes the installation of Body Worlds by Gunther von Hagens as an intertwining of imagination and ideology. By the means of a phenomenon-historical investigation it explains the development from Leonardo da Vinci's opening of human body until to the creation of wax preparations and von Hagens' 'body plastination.'