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Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists
Artist/Author: Marla Carlson | Reference: P3594 | ISBN: 978-0230103863 | Type: Publication

Analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in late-medieval France and the twenty-first century, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

Bob Flanagan body art Chris Burden cognitive science compassion criticism empathy endurance Fakir Musafar flagellants gender history humour live art Marina Abramović medicine mysticism neuroscience pain queer theory Ron Athey Saint Denis saint plays Sarah Kane self-harm sex sympathy theory torture

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