Disability and art history

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 disabil...

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Other Authors: Millett-Gallant, Ann, 1975-, Howie, Elizabeth,
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2016.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Disability and art history introduction /
  • Ann Millett-Gallant and Elizabeth Howie
  • 1.
  • Artists and muses: "Peter's World" and other photographs by Susan Harbage Page /
  • Ann Millett-Gallant
  • 2.
  • Exploiting, degrading, and repellent: against a biased interpretation of contemporary art about disability /
  • Nina Heindl
  • 3.
  • Nothing is missing: spiritual elevation of a visually impaired Moche shaman /
  • Rebecca R. Stone
  • 4.
  • Divining disability: criticism as diagnosis in Mesoamerican art history /
  • William T. Gassaway
  • 5.
  • Difference and disability in the photography of Margaret Bourke-White /
  • Keri Watson
  • 8.
  • Representing disability in post-World War II photography /
  • Timothy W. Hiles
  • 7.
  • Disabled veteran of World War I in the mirror of contemporary art: the reception of Otto Dix's painting The Cripples (1920) in Yael Bartana's film Degenerate Art Lives (2010) /
  • Anne Marno
  • 8.
  • Disabling Surrealism: reconstituting Surrealist tropes in contemporary art /
  • Amanda Cachia
  • 9.
  • Dandy Victorian: Yinka Shonibare's allegory of disability and passing /
  • Elizabeth Howie
  • 10.
  • Crafting disabled sexuality: the visual language of Nomy Lamm's "Wall of Fire" /
  • Shayda Kafai.