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The scar of visibility : medical performances and contemporary art  Cover Image Book Book

The scar of visibility : medical performances and contemporary art / Petra Kuppers

Kuppers, Petra (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0816646538
  • ISBN: 9780816646531
  • ISBN: 081664652X
  • ISBN: 9780816646524
  • Physical Description: ix, 259 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index
Formatted Contents Note:
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
Subject: Body art
Medicine and art
Art > Psychological aspects
Genre: Performance art.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Emily Carr University of Art + Design N6494 .B63 K87 2007 (Text) 30244751 Book Volume hold Available -


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