The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art [electronic resource] /
Millett-Gallant, Ann.author.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : enabling the image -- Disarming Venus -- Sculpting body ideals -- Performing amputation -- Exceeding the frame -- Conclusion : staring back and forth.
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.
Social medicine.
Arts.
Performing arts.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Fine arts.
Medical Sociology.
Arts.
Performing Arts.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Sociology, general.
Fine Arts.