i’m going to sound dumb but i don’t care. ok imagine being in the 18th century at a party where someone played a brand new piece of music. did you just have to accept that you might never hear it again?
anatomy, like erotica, served as a means for dissecting and displaying the 'mysterious' female interior. anatomy books were even used as masturbation and sex aids, at a time when non-marital sex was frowned upon. the overlap between erotica and anatomy was subtle, but deliberate!
Friendly reminder that NASA has thousands of beautiful, publicly available 4K visualizations of science data, spacecraft, and missions located here: https://t.co/qdH953E55P
Also worth reflecting on is The Aragon's south side twin. The Trianon. Built in a French Renaissance style. Demolished in the 1960's for housing, the lot is vacant today. Woodlawn, like Uptown, was one of Chicagos Jazz-Age 'bright lights district'. A real entertainment district.