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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kuppers, Petra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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