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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
c2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798402206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
