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The disabled body in contemporary art / Ann Millett-Gallant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millett-Gallant, Ann, 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities in art.
- Disabilities.
- Art, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.
- Art, Modern.
- Art, Modern--21st century--Themes, motives.
- Art and society--History--20th century.
- Art and society.
- Art and society--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (IX, 177 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : enabling the image
- Disarming Venus
- Sculpting body ideals
- Performing amputation
- Exceeding the frame
- Conclusion : staring back and forth.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-99232-5
- 9786612992322
- 0-230-10997-7
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