- Austin Gresham
G Austin Gresham (born 1925) is a British pathologist and writer of "A Colour Atlas of Forensic Pathology", a seminal book on the subject.
Austin Gresham emeritus professor of morbid anatomy and
histopathology at Jesus College,Cambridge .His
1975 handbook, "A Colour Atlas of Forensic Pathology", was compiled for trainee pathologists and, according to the author, "designed to fit into a jacket pocket so that it could be taken into the field".It has however become "the Britart bible", according to
Mat Collishaw , a British artist who came to prominence at theSensation exhibition at theRoyal Academy in1997 . He and otherYoung British Artists of the 1990s, such asDamien Hirst , used many of its explicit images of dead bodies in their artwork. [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/01/nbritart101.xml Meet the grandfather of Britart - Telegraph ] ]References
External links
[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/01/nbritart101.xml Telegraph newspaper article on Gresham]
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