02730nam 2200637 a 450 991082517050332120200520144314.00-8166-9768-X(CKB)1000000000481153(EBL)326388(OCoLC)476124050(SSID)ssj0000241594(PQKBManifestationID)11228610(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000241594(PQKBWorkID)10298464(PQKB)10377463(MiAaPQ)EBC326388(OCoLC)182857333(MdBmJHUP)muse39813(Au-PeEL)EBL326388(CaPaEBR)ebr10206199(CaONFJC)MIL522493(EXLCZ)99100000000048115320060824d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe scar of visibility medical performances and contemporary art /Petra Kuppers1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20071 online resource (272 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4653-8 0-8166-4652-X 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.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.Body artPerformance artMedicine and artArtPsychological aspectsBody art.Performance art.Medicine and art.ArtPsychological aspects.709.05Kuppers Petra703345MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825170503321The scar of visibility3922302UNINA