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The scar of visibility : medical performances and contemporary art / Petra Kuppers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuppers, Petra.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Body art.
- Performance art.
- Medicine and art.
- Art--Psychological aspects.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9768-X
- OCLC:
- 476124050
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