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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 617.95201
EAN num: 9783836500906
Format: Illustrated
ISBN number: 3836500906
Label: Taschen
Manufacturer: Taschen
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 439
Printing Date: January 01, 2008
Publishing house: Taschen
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From liposuction to lip implants, this book explores all the ins and outs of body sculpting, focusing on the artistry of aesthetic surgery and the extremes to which people go to ?improve? their looks. Topics include: ? History of aesthetic surgery (with unpublished medical photos!) ? Ethnicity and aesthetic surgery ? Surgery in movies ? Spotlight on Ivo Pitanguy, the ?Michelangelo of the scalpel? ? Interviews with the world's most famous aesthetic surgeons ? Before and after photos of transformed body parts, from the top of the head to the tips of the toes ? Caricatures and jokes about aesthetic surgery ? Bibliography including links to plastic surgery websites
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For those readers who want the MOST COMPREHENSIVE compilation on aesthetic surgery, the Taschen book is a Must Read, Must See and Must Buy on so many levels: visually, aesthetically, even viscerally.(some photos will make one queasy). Looking at photos (some from historical archives which have rarely been published before) is like stepping into a Time Machine to see through the decades of the Dark Ages of plastic surgery--- the successes, the failures, the logic and sometimes illogic-- behind those surgical geniuses who started to operate, initially, to cure deformities caused through birth, accident, warfare , but through the centuries took their unique craft from deformity to beauty to mythical beauty and beyond-- way beyond what humans could have every imagined just a few centuries ago.
I highly recommend this book to the laymen, to the curious, to the medical professional; in an odd way, it is like a medical text coffee book-- the art, the photos, the text will intrigue and fascinate even those with minimal interest in aesthetic surgery. From Nefertiti to Gwyneth Paltrow,from Cukor's A Woman's Face to interviews with the some of the world's most renown aesthetic surgeons, the enchanted and captivated reader will find endless humans/objects/art and artifice to make the mystique of aesthetic surgery come alive, whether one wants it to or not!
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