Author: BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body
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The SF Soccer team (2008)
The matter in this painting was to express with a given group of individuals, eleven players on the field, lost limbs and reconstructed ones, following the range of possibilities plastic surgery practices offer: mechanical, myoelectrical, functional and/or aesthetical and bionic. The last “player” thanks to his numerous enhancements has already become a hybrid body,…
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Reconstruction/ Augmentation of the HUMAN BODY
HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY: FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO AUGMENTATION The non-reconstructed human body inscribed in early-Christianity was considered as an untouchable God’s creation, so was strictly forbidden its reconstruction. Then, the social and religious order has progressively allowed the reconstruction to the condition this latter was inscribed within the following dichotomy, between normal and pathological.…