Heffers Skeleton

Trinity Street, Cambridge 160718Another example of the scary use of figures – in this case hardly a mannequin – here in Heffers to advertise Agatha Christie.

While there I picked up a copy of The Anatomical Venus….’A disquieting volume of deftly crafted dissectable wax Venuses and slashed beauties…examines their paradoxical existence…on the edges of medicine and myth, votive and vernacular, fetish and fine art.’

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