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Macabre More than 13 million people have viewed "Body Worlds" since "I go to the depths," von Hagens said recently in an interview "This is a kind of body celebration; here we are more naked than the The 59-year-old von Hagens — medical doctor by training, university Among the displays are the body of a man whose skin was removed and lies As soon as the US tour is set, the Dowbrigade will bring the itinerary latest story from today’s Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Macabre doesn’t begin to describe the work of German artist\/anatomist Gunter von Hagens, who is turning human cadavers into artwork at the Von Hagens Plastination factory in Dalian, in northeast China. Although he does the actual body work in … Continue reading
\n doesn’t begin to describe the
\n work of German artist\/anatomist Gunter von Hagens<\/a>, who is turning human cadavers into artwork at the Von Hagens
\n Plastination factory in Dalian, in northeast China. Although he does
\n the actual body work in hermetic China, the finished products are currently
\n touring Europe to enthusiastic crowds.<\/p>\n
\n it opened in 1996. Besides Germany, the exhibition has been to London,
\n Brussels, Singapore and Basel, Switzerland, as well as cities in Japan
\n and South Korea. Plans are underway to bring it to the United States
\n in the next two years.<\/p>\n\n
\n at his "Body Worlds" show in a cavernous exhibition hall
\n in Germany’s financial capital.<\/p>\n
\n naked — we do not even have our skin."<\/p>\n
\n lecturer by profession, artist of anatomy by passion — wants people
\n to be able to see the beauty beneath the skin, literally. To this end
\n he has amassed a large array of "specimens," as he likes
\n to call them.<\/p>\n
\n draped over his outstretched arm, and the man whose body was cut and
\n stretched so as to better display his internal organs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n to our readers attention, so that you can all go and decide for yourselves;
\n art or atrocity?<\/p>\n