Severed

Severed
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Publisher : Granta Books
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9781847088017
ISBN-13 : 1847088015
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Book Synopsis Severed by : Frances Larson

Download or read book Severed written by Frances Larson and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story.


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