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For dear life : art, medicine, and disability / Jill Dawsey and Isabel Casso.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawsey, Jill.
- Casso, Isabel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists with disabilities--Exhibitions.
- Artists with disabilities.
- Artists with disabilities--21st century.
- Artists with disabilities--United States.
- People with disabilities and the arts--Exhibitions.
- People with disabilities and the arts.
- Creative ability.
- People with disabilities.
- Creativity.
- Persons with Disabilities.
- Medicine in the Arts.
- creativity.
- Medical Subjects:
- Creativity.
- Persons with Disabilities.
- Medicine in the Arts.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego, CA : Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2024.
- Summary:
- "For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability is the first exhibition and publication to survey themes of illness and impairment in American art from the 1960s up to the COVID-19 era. Narrating the history of recent art through the lens of disability--a term used inclusively--For Dear Life recognizes the vulnerable body to be a crucial, of overlooked, throughline in art of the United States amid the upheavals and transformations of the past six decades." -- inside front cover.
- Contents:
- Director's Foreward
- Curators' Preface
- Holding on for dear life / Jill Dawsey and Isabel Casso
- Plates
- Emory Douglas and the black disability politics of his revolutionary art / Sami Schalk
- Lynn Hershman Leeson: obfuscated self-display / Dodie Bellamy
- Sick jokes, blasphemous rumors, and fabulous antics: West Coast artists respond to AIDS / David Evans Frantz
- Here's looking at you: disability art at the turn of the twenty-first century / Amanda Cachia
- Further reading
- Exhibition checklist
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Illustration credits
- Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Board and Staff
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- "Published in conjunction with the exhibition For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability, presented at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego from September 19, 2024, to February 2, 2025."--colophon.
- ISBN:
- 1477331026
- 9781477331026
- OCLC:
- 1434024979
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