Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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i wanted you to make me talk more about how that's dealt with in your book, and how art in particular, and the grotesque, is able to respond. i was fascinated because they did have e number of jars of pickled and preserved specimens human yo. In misshapen cellular reproductive practice would end up in a physically visible, a kind of abnormality for lack of a better term. And so what i really did like is when people like firshaw would set up these displays,. You know, his institute ofa pathological museum, which still exists to day in some form.
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