Word: lehnbachaus
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Despite its economic problems, the city has spent a great deal of money assembling an impressive collection of modern art. Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Rauschenberg filled a single long gallery spanning the width of an entire building last summer. One modern art exhibit at the Lehnbachaus sparked controversy for most of July and August...
Guarding the Lehnbachaus exhibit, a large, fat man sat in a hallway just inside the entrance. Down the corridor stood a table of tools and junk. The guard laughed as I walked by him, ignoring the table, and then he waddled over, grabbed my hand and cheerfully led me back to the heap in the corner. I had missed the first piece of the exhibit...
Another work at the Lehnbachaus was a metal table on wheels, placed over a tub of waxy material. A cabinet-like frame hung on the wall above. The guide booklet said the waxy stuff represented human fat; the rolling table, an embalming tray and the tools in the cabinet, embalming tools. The observer was supposed to reach and overcome the death taboo, called "The Morgue," the work aimed to fill the senses with revulsion and horror so that the viewer gradually lost his sensitivity to death...
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