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The scar of visibility : medical performances and contemporary art / Petra Kuppers.
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View onlineFine 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
- Online:
- Publisher description
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