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
American Grotesque is a lavish retrospective of grotesque, occult, and erotic images by the forgotten Hollywood photographer William Mortensen (1897–1965), an innovative pictorialist visionary whom Ansel Adams called the “Antichrist” and to whom Anton LaVey dedicated The Satanic Bible.