This volume analyzes the representation of disabled and disfigured bodies in contemporary art and its various contexts, from art history to photography to medical displays to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century freak show.
This volume analyzes the representation of disabled and disfigured bodies in contemporary art and its various contexts, from art history to photograph...
This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship. Art historians have traditionally written about images of figures with impairments and artworks by disabled artists, without integrating disability studies scholarship, while many disability studies scholars discuss works of art, but do not necessarily incorporate art historical research and methodology. The chapters in this volume emphasize a shift away from the medical model of disability that is often scrutinized in art history by considering the social model and...
This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship. Art historians have traditionally w...
This volume analyzes the representation of disabled and disfigured bodies in contemporary art and its various contexts, from art history to photography to medical displays to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century freak show.
This volume analyzes the representation of disabled and disfigured bodies in contemporary art and its various contexts, from art history to photograph...