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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. ** Review "A significant, durable contribution. Highly recommended." - CHOICE "There is little if any systematic work on the intersection between art history and disability studies. When a theory is broached, it usually comes down to the accusation that art has participated in the history of discrimination against disabled people. Millett-Gallant is able to discuss troubling aspects concerning disability in the history of art, and yet she finds a way to describe how these same troubling aspects resist discrimination. Hers is a complex idea of aesthetic representation, and her analysis does not fail to respect this complexity but, rather, dwells in it by providing a dense articulation of works of art, their allusions, and meanings. The book is of critical importance. It is the first of its kind." - Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan "An important contribution to the growing field of disability studies, Millett-Gallant brings art history into contact and colla

Who reads The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art?

Author

Millett-Gallant, Ann

Publisher

Brand: Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612992322

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Medicine