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The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art
Petra Kuppers
Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs and computer imaging-and the bodily access they imply-to reveal their limitations. In doing so they emphasize the unknowability of another's bodily experience and the effects-physical, emotional, and social-of medical procedures. In
360 pages, 58 halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 16, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780816646531 |
| Publishers | University of Minnesota Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 254 × 177 × 19 mm · 471 g |
| Language | English |
