Full Description
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 disability studies scholars discuss works of art, but do not necessarily incorporate art historical research and methodology. The chapters in this volume emphasize a shift away from the medical model of disability that is often scrutinized in art history by considering the social model and representations of disabled figures from a range of styles and periods, mostly from the twentieth century. Topics addressed include visible versus invisible impairments; scientific, anthropological, and vernacular images of disability; and the theories and implications of looking/staring versus gazing. They also explore ways in which art responds to, envisions, and at times stereotypes and pathologizes disability. The insights offered in this book contextualize understanding of disability historically, as well as in terms of medicine, literature, and visual culture.
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Artists and Muses: Peter's World and Other Photographs by Susan Harbage Page (Ann Millett-Gallant)
Chapter 2: Exploiting, Degrading, and Repellent: Against a Biased Interpretation of Contemporary Art about Disability (Nina Heindl)
Chapter 3: Nothing is Missing: Spiritual Elevation of a Visually Impaired Moche Shaman (Rebecca Stone)
Chapter 4: Divining Disability: Criticism as Diagnosis in Mesoamerican Art History (William Gassaway)
Chapter 5: Difference and Disability in the Photography of Margaret-Bourke-White (Keri Watson)
Chapter 6: Representing Disability in Post-World War II Photography (Timothy Hiles)
Chapter 7: The 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)
Chapter 8: Disabling Surrealism: Reconstituting Surrealist Tropes in Contemporary Art (Amanda Cachia)
Chapter 9: The Dandy Victorian: Yinka Shonibare's Allegory of Disability and Passing (Elizabeth Howie)
Chapter 10: Crafting Disabled Sexuality: The Visual Language of Nomy Lamm's Wall of Fire (Shayda Kafai)
Index
