The scar of visibility : medical performances and contemporary art / Petra Kuppers.
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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Table of Contents:
- 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.