[978-1-60953-010-5] 2010. (Trade paperback) Near fine. 308pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. "The desire to possess the skulls of the brilliant and famous - for study, for sale, for public (and private) display - has in some people been irresistible. And the lengths they have gone to achieve their acquisitions have at times become a comedy of the grotesque". Book about L. Van Beethoven, Thomas Browne, Grave Robbers & Emanuel Swedenborg. (Medicine, Genius, History, Medicine, Skulls).

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Cranioklepty; Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius

Publisher

Unbridled Books 978-1-60953-010-5

ISBN 10

1609530101

ISBN 13

9781609530105

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Soft cover

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Health and Medicine

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Synopsis

The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness.

Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on the guilty pleasures of an anthology of real-after-life gothic tales.

Beginning dramatically with the opening of Haydn’s grave in October 1820, cranioklepty takes us on an extraordinary history of a peculiar kind of obsession. The desire to own the skulls of the famous, for study, for sale, for public (and private) display, seems to be instinctual and irresistible in some people. The rise of phrenology at the beginning of the 19th century only fed that fascination with the belief that genius leaves its mark on the very shape of the head.

About the Author

Colin Dickey is the co-editor of Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Cabinet, TriQuarterly, and The Santa Monica Review. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he now lives in Los Angeles.

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