Author Archive for: ‘Terrie Waddell’

Linda S. Kauffman, Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture. University of California Press, California, 1998. ISBN 0-520-21032-8 324pp $18.95 US (pb) Uploaded 16 April 1999 Although we’re gravitating closer to the unfleshed dimensions of cyberspace it seems to me that our obsessions with the body are just as delirious as they’ve always been. The 90’s …

Catharine Lumby, Gotcha: Life in a Tabloid World. St Leonards, Allen & Unwin, 1999. ISBN 1 86508 073 X 280pp AU$16.95 (paper) (Review copy supplied by Allen & Unwin) Uploaded 1 March 2000 I first read Gotcha swanning round a swimming pool somewhere in Queensland – the perfect book for holiday indulgence … just taxing enough to remind me of work and …

Petra Kupper, The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art. London: University of Minnesota, 2007. ISBN: 978 081664653 1 US$29.95 (pb) 360pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) When I was about eight years old I lay in hospital with a long, thick strip of sticky material across my lower belly. As the young male doctor examined …