The scar of visibility medical performances and contemporary art
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798402206719 |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816697687 |
