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Kuppers, Petra.

The scar of visibility medical performances and contemporary art / [electronic resource] : Petra Kuppers. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007. - ix, 259 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
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ISBN:

LCCN:

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA690167 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk DNLM

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Body art.
Performance art.
Medicine and art.
Art--Psychological aspects.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: N6494.B63 / K87 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 709.05