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Book design, dissected

Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.

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Sockets and stumps

Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.

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Naked, not nude

Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.

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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs

In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.

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  • Recto: A framed photograph of a gay couple next to a condom and a bottle of lubricant on a table with a book, a vase of roses and a lamp representing a safe sex advertisement for gay men by the Victorian AIDS council; verso: the backs of two naked men with their arms around each other, one holding a condom, the other with his fingers crossed with instructions on what to do when having sex with or without condoms. Colour lithograph by Opsis Design and Freak me Freak me Productions, 1994.
  • Recto: A framed photograph of a gay couple next to a condom and a bottle of lubricant on a table with a book, a vase of roses and a lamp representing a safe sex advertisement for gay men by the Victorian AIDS council; verso: the backs of two naked men with their arms around each other, one holding a condom, the other with his fingers crossed with instructions on what to do when having sex with or without condoms. Colour lithograph by Opsis Design and Freak me Freak me Productions, 1994.
  • Recto: A framed photograph of a gay couple next to a condom and a bottle of lubricant on a table with a book, a vase of roses and a lamp representing a safe sex advertisement for gay men by the Victorian AIDS council; verso: the backs of two naked men with their arms around each other, one holding a condom, the other with his fingers crossed with instructions on what to do when having sex with or without condoms. Colour lithograph by Opsis Design and Freak me Freak me Productions, 1994.
  • A book cover designed as a board game about safer sex risks. Colour lithograph by the Walraven Book Cover Company, 1992.
  • An old man reading a book, designated as Saint Anastasius. Engraving by P. de Balliu after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • A man holding a large book, formerly designated as Andreas Vesalius. Line engraving by T. Vercruis after F. Petrucci after Titian (?).
  • Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature, being the summe and substance of naturall philosophy, methodically digested / First designed by John Wecker and now much augmented and inlarged by Dr. R. Read. [Translated by William Rowland] ; a like work never before in the English tongue.
  • Leaf 8a : reference leaf : child's / [Ministry of Food].
  • Leaf 8a : reference leaf : child's / [Ministry of Food].
  • A valiant and resolute man (as described by Lavater): profile. Drawing, c. 1793.
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