The result is somehow even more animated, more eternal, and the quote paired with it, from the eighteenth-century naturalist Comte de Buffon, reveals the project at hand: The image that opens the Patrick Gries and Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu’s stunning book Evolution ( public library) takes Von Hagens horse and rider and strips it completely, bone against black in a beautiful high-resolution photograph. But Von Hagens, for all his showmanship, emphasized that these bodies, preserved hopefully forever, were for learning. Bodyworlds was gross anatomy on parade, and to some it might have felt more like body snatching than an education in muscle mass and movement. When Gunther von Hagens put together his traveling display of half-stripped bodies playing sports, chess, fencing, riding a similarly half-stripped horse, and generally acting like their human counterparts, audiences were horrified and fascinated.
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