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
Autor principal: Kuppers, Petra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Performance art.
Medicine and art.
Body art.
Art > Psychological aspects.
ART > Criticism & Theory.
ART > History.
museums (institutions)
plays (performing arts compositions)
body arts (discipline)
Musees.
Theâtre (Genre litteraire)
Art.
Art > Aspect psychologique.
Medecine et art.
Art corporel.
Museums
Drama
Art
Medicine in the Arts
Museums.
Drama.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: bodily fantasies
  • Visions of anatomy: space, exhibitions, and dense bodies
  • Living bodies: staging knowledge, fantasy, and temporality
  • The collaborative arts: pain and performance
  • Intersections: blood, laughter, and the space-off
  • Monsters, cyborgs, animals: crashes, cuttings, and migraines
  • Medical museums and art display: the discourses of AIDS
  • Reaching out: outsider art, specialists, and positions in between
  • Epilogue: fantasies in the sand.

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