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"L'Art Medical" is a collection of works by French writer, photographer, and illustrator Romain Slocombe (1953-). Active since the late 1970s, Slocombe has developed a cross-genre style of expression encompassing photography, illustration, and novels, heavily influenced by Japanese culture, film, and manga. His life's work is "medical art," encompassing bandages, casts, prosthetics, and medical instruments, establishing international acclaim for his unique worldview where beauty and violence, eroticism, and anxiety intertwine. This book, published in 1983, is one of his early representative works and can be considered the origin of his "medical art" work, which has continued for over 40 years. Slocombe himself served as art director, and the book was conceived as a platform for collecting experimental works that could not be published in commercial media. In addition to his own works, it includes photographs, illustrations, and collages by leading creators of the time, such as Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Kiki Picasso, and Shigenari Onishi. Centered around the fictional setting of a hospital, this work features an experimental structure that fuses medical motifs with photographs, graphics, and a novel. It also includes the short story "Hospital Love," and is an important work for understanding Slocombe's early career, as it condenses the aesthetic that would later be seen in "Japan in Bandage" and "Broken Dolls."
