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The scar of visibility : medical performances and contemporary art / Petra Kuppers.

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Fine Arts Library N6494.B63 K87 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kuppers, Petra.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Body art.
Performance art.
Medicine and art.
Art--Psychological aspects.
Art.
Physical Description:
ix, 259 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Place of Publication:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.
ISBN:
0816646538
9780816646531
081664652X
9780816646524
OCLC:
71243876

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