Leonard Baskin
Ars Anatomica. A Medical Fantasia, 1972
NY: Medicina Rara
One of 300 double suites. Signed by Baskin.
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Elephant folio. (28) bifold sheets. In his introduction to the project, John E. Marqusee frames Baskin's drawings as an anti-scientific response to the diagrammatic depictions of the human figure that...
Elephant folio. (28) bifold sheets. In his introduction to the project, John E. Marqusee frames Baskin's drawings as an anti-scientific response to the diagrammatic depictions of the human figure that have long accompanied medical texts, from Vesalius onward. Instead, Baskin, by the vigor of his style, communicates the visceral and sometimes brutal reality of having a body at all. Sheets housed in custom box with supportive wood edges. The deluxe edition of the production provides a double suite. Fine. Housed in slipcase lightly scuffed.
