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

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2007], ©2007.

ix, 259 pages : illustrations ; 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.