Ann Millett-Gallant

The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 177
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230109971
• Artikelnr.: 70302862

Autorenporträt

ANN MILLETT-GALLANT is Lecturer atThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Curating this Collection.- Chapter 1: Disarming Venus.- Chapter 2: Sculpting Body Ideals.- Chapter 3: Performing Amputation.- Chapter 4: Staring Back and Forth: The Photographs of Kevin Connolly.- Chapter 5: Cripping Aesthetics: The Work of Persimmon Blackbridge.- Chapter 6: Watching One's Back: Self-Portraits of Disabled Women's Backs as Provocative and Protective.- Conclusion: Looking Forward.