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Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

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Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

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Ed. by Ann Millett-Gallant and Elizabeth Howie. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2022. Interdisciplinary Disability Studies.

288 pp. Moderately illustrated (all b&w). 24 x 16 cm. In English. Hardcover.

ISBN 9780367500474

This volume analyzes representations of disability in art from antiquity to the twenty-first century, incorporating disability studies scholarship and art historical research and methodology. The book brings these two strands together to provide a comprehensive overview of the intersections between these two disciplines. Divided into four parts (Ancient History through the 17th Century: Gods, Dwarfs, and Warriors; 17th-Century Spain to the American Civil War: Misfits, Wounded Bodies, and Medical Specimens; Modernism, Metaphor and Corporeality; and Contemporary Art: Crips, Care, and Portraiture) and comprised of 16 chapters focusing on Greek sculpture, ancient Chinese art, Early Italian Renaissance art, the Spanish Golden Age, nineteenth century art in France (Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec) and the US, and contemporary works, it contextualizes understandings of disability historically, as well as in terms of medicine, literature, and visual culture. This publication is required reading for scholars and students of disability studies, art history, sociology, medical humanities and media arts.

Subject Headings: International ; Western Art -- Surveys of Several Periods -- Criticism/Theory ; Several Fine Arts Media (Western) --

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