Beschreibung:
«We often speak of the body of text, and Darian Goldin Stahl's excellent and timely book deals with sister-inspired texts of the body. Stahl makes the case, beautifully and powerfully, for the value of artists' books to open us up (like a laparotomy) to illness experience.»
Contents: Introduction: Embodied Books - How to Read Artists' Books - An Unsettled Medium: The Turbulent Taxonomy and Collection of Printed Matter on Illness - The Artist's Challenge to Medical Paradigms - Research-Creation in Patients' Artists' Books - Artists' Books in the Clinic and Classroom - «Book as Body» Workshops: A Case Study of Health Humanities Pedagogies - Conclusions and Future.