The Routledge companion to art and disability / edited by Keri Watson and Timothy W. Hiles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hiles, Timothy W. (Timothy Wayne), 1958- editor.

Watson, Keri W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

People with disabilities in art.

People with mental disabilities in art.

Sociology of disability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 449 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Art and disability

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

"The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. This companion is organized thematically and includes artists from across historical periods and cultures in order to demonstrate the ways in which disability is historically and culturally contingent. The book engages with questions such as how are people with disabilities represented in art; how are notions of disability articulated in relation to ideas of normality, hybridity, and anomaly; and how do artists use visual culture to affirm or subvert notions of the normative body. Contributors consider the changing role of disability in visual culture, the place of representations in society, and the ways in which disability studies engages with and critiques intersectional notions of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. This book will be particularly useful for scholars in art history, disability studies, visual culture, and museum studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Historical and religious framings of art and disability

Ableism and disablism : constructing notions of idealized bodies

Towards an aesthetics of disability.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1003009980

9781003009986

1000553434

9781000553437

OCLC:

1273728417