Joanna Ebenstein (ed.): Frederik Ruysch and his Thesaurus Anatomicus. A Morbid Guide. (The MIT Press, 2022)

The newest book by Joanna Ebenstein was released on 20 September 2022. I attended a Zoom symposium earlier on that month to celebrate this new book. During those four hours I made some quick notes and on the top of the A4 paper I had written “Science meet art”.  This book happened when Ebenstein met...

Joanna Ebenstein and Colin Dickey: The Morbid Anatomy Anthology (Morbid Anatomy Press, 2014)

The Morbid Anatomy Anthology was released already in 2014, but I still want to present this book as it's definitely worth it. And, what’s the best, you can still get it in relatively easily, either as a new book or as a second hand. The latter ones are much cheaper.  The Morbid Anatomy Anthology is...

Tapio Katko, Petri Juuti & Riikka Juuti: Vesihuollon myytit (Vastapaino 2022)

𝑴𝒚 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉-𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔: 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒇 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔. 𝑺𝒐 𝑰 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒈,...

Joanna Ebenstein: The Anatomical Venus (Thames & Hudson, 2016)

Joanna Ebenstein's book The Anatomical Venus was published in 2016 and I bought my copy several years ago from London and I started working on the presentation several months ago, but finally I am ready to publish my story about this fascinating book. Even though my road with the book was a long one, I...

hide Perfect Treasures – Premium International Version (CSI, 2021)

ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 – 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 was released by CSI on 20 December 2021. As the name indicates, this book is addressed also to ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒 fans abroad and comes with English translations. The book is so called treasure book and it means that this is definitely not an ordinary book. ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠, the...

Jacqueline Riding: Hogarth. Life in Progress (Profile Books, 2021)

Hogarth. William Hogarth. I love Hogarth. I had been planning to write a proper Hogarth story for the 10th of November 2022 as that’s a 325th anniversary of his birth. But then I noticed that a brand new book about him was released in the summer, so naturally I purchased the book and decided to...

Death: A Graveside Companion, edited by Joanna Ebenstein (Thames & Hudson, 2017)

Death: A Graveside Companion is a gorgeous looking and heavy – definitely not suitable for bedtime reading/studying – book edited by Joanna Ebenstein. On the cover it says “1,000 macabre illustrations” and that tells it all; it’s a book of illustrations. But although the certainty of death should encourage us to take it with the...

YOSHIKI – XY (Kodansha, 2020)

XY is the second photo book featuring YOSHIKI. It was released in November 2020. The first one was published 28 years earlier. The photos for XY are taken by Los Angeles based photographer Melanie Pullen. With the book comes a 30 minutes long DVD that takes you to see the photo shoot at The Paramour...

William J. Fishman: East End 1888 (Duckworth, 1988)

East End 1888 is a name of a book by William J. Fishman, who was born on 1 April 1921. The book was published in 1988. I have had the book in my shelf for some time, but I decided to read it now by the hundredth anniversary of the birth of its creator. In...