Georgina Kleege

More than Meets the Eye (eBook, PDF)

What Blindness Brings to Art

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the quarter century following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, art museums, along with other public institutions, were tasked with making their facilities and collections more accessible to people with disabilities. Although blind and other disabled people have become marginally more visible in recent years, the vast majority of blind Americans remain undereducated and unemployed. In More Than Meets the Eye, Georgina Kleege shows how the scrutiny of one cultural issue-access to arts institutions-in relation to one subset of the disabled population- blind people-can lead us to larger and more general implications. Kleege begins by examining representations of blindness, arguing that traditional theories of blindness often fail to take into account the presence of other senses, or the ability of blind people to draw analogies from non-visual experience to develop concepts about visual phenomena. Following this, the book shifts its focus from the tactile to the verbal, describing Denis Diderot's remarkable range of techniques to describe art works for readers who were not able to view them. Diderot's writing not only provided a model for describing art, Kleege says, but proof that the experience of art is inextricably tied to language and thus not entirely dependent on sight. By intertwining her personal experience with scientific study and historical literary analysis, Kleege challenges traditional conceptions of blindness and overturns the assumption that the ideal art viewer must have perfect vision. More Than Meets the Eye seeks to establish a dialogue between blind people and the philosophers, scientists, and educators that study blindness, in order to create new aesthetic possibilities and a more genuinely inclusive society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190604370
• Artikelnr.: 54569931

Autorenporträt

Georgina Kleege is Lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous books include Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller (2006) and Sight Unseen (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: The Tenacious Life of the Hypothetical Blind Man
Chapter Two: Touching on Science
Chapter Three: Visible Braille, Invisible Blindness
Chapter Four: Touch Tourism
Chapter Five: Hearsay
Chapter Six: Dialogues with the Blind
Chapter Seven: Audio Description Described
Chapter Eight: What They Talk About When They talk About Art
Chapter Nine: Blind Self Portraits: Studies in Blue and Bronze