Morbid Anatomy Weekend
A Pop-Up Series of Macabre Subjects
Book signings and weekend symposiums
Saturday & Sunday, October 29 – 30, 2016,
12-6PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
Soap Plant / Wacko
4633 Hollywood Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com
Join Morbid Anatomy in Los Angeles for their first California pop-up consisting of a party, special tours, and an all-day symposium at fabulous La Luz de Jesus featuring Megan Rosenbloom of the Norris Medical Library of the USC; Morbid Anatomy Museum co-founders Tracy Hurley Martin and Joanna Ebenstein & founding board member Tonya Hurley; Morbid Anatomy Museum scholar in residence Elizabeth Harper; Gross America author Richard Faulk, and many more!
Our symposium at La Luz de Jesus will include films on Victorian taxidermy tableaux of kitten weddings and tearful cemetery pilgrimages; illustrated talks on macabre Catholic relics, 1960s televangalist Miss Velma, books bound in human skin; a multimedia spoken-word performance devoted to Kraftwerk; and much more!
Among the books being signed:
The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & The Ecstatic
by Joanna Ebenstein
Published by D.A.P.
Hardcover $35
ISBN: 978-1938922916
5.91 x 1 x 9.5 in | Pages: 224
Arts & Photography | History & Criticism | Erotica
The Morbid Anatomy Anthology
Edited by Joanna Ebenstein and Colin Dickey
Published by Morbid Anatomy Press
Hardcover $30
ISBN: 978-0989394307
6.1 x 1.5 x 8.5 in | Pages: 491
Medical Reference | Pop Culture | Social Sciences
