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The Art of Keeping Death Alive | Joanna Ebenstein (Morbid Anatomy) | HITW 152

Ep. 152

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Joanna Ebenstein is the founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. An internationally recognized death expert, her books include Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy, Death: A Graveside Companion and The Anatomical Venus. She is also an award-winning curator, photographer, and graphic designer, and teacher of the many times sold out class Memento Mori: Befriending Death with Art, History and the Imagination.


https://www.joannaebenstein.com/


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