Preserving and exposing the human form, he courted controversy with ‘Body Worlds’

When Gunther von Hagens’s exhibition came to town, security guards worried less about theft than nausea. Bridging art, science and spectacle, it was a blockbuster traveling show built around one of the most discomfiting sights imaginable: real human bodies, preserved and dissected, with the skin pee...

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