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Severed Author: Frances Larson

ISBN: 9781783780563 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 336 Published: 18 November 2015 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.9 x 21.1 x 2.2 Description: A serious and seriously entertaining exploration of the dark and varied obsessions that the 'civilized West' has had with decapitated heads and skulls.

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.

About the Author

Dr Frances Larson is an honorary research fellow at the University of Oxford and the author of a biography of Henry Wellcome, An Infinity of Things, which w...

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