The scar of visibility : medical performances and contemporary art /

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In The Scar of Visibility, Petra Kuppers examines the use of medical imagery practices in contemporary art, as well as different arts of everyday life. Among the works she investigates are the controversial Body Worlds exhibition of plastinized corpses, films like David Cronenbergs Crash that fetish...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kuppers, Petra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Body art.
Performance art.
Medicine and art.
Art > Psychological aspects.
Art.
Drama.
Museums.
Medicine in the Arts
Art
Drama
Museums
Art corporel.
Médecine et art.
Art > Aspect psychologique.
Théâtre (Genre littéraire)
Musées.
body arts (discipline)
plays (performing arts compositions)
museums (institutions)
body art (visual works, performance)
drama (literary genre)
ART > History.
ART > Criticism & Theory.
Art > Psychological aspects
Body art
Medicine and art
Performance art
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In The Scar of Visibility, Petra Kuppers examines the use of medical imagery practices in contemporary art, as well as different arts of everyday life. Among the works she investigates are the controversial Body Worlds exhibition of plastinized corpses, films like David Cronenbergs Crash that fetishize body wounds, representations of the AIDS virus on CSI: Crime Scene Investigations, and the paintings of outsider artist Martin Ram?rez.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.
ISBN:9780816697687
081669768X

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