Description
Book SynopsisThis volume analyzes representations of disability in art from antiquity to the twenty-first century, incorporating disability studies scholarship and art historical research and methodology.
This 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
- 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 medici
Table of Contents
Part 1: Ancient History through the Seventeenth Century: Gods, Dwarfs, and Warriors
1. Hephaestus Represented: a Mêtis-based Inquiry
2. The Role of Dwarfs in Tang Postmortem Elite Life
3. Disability and Poverty at the Brancacci Chapel
4. Disability at the Edge of War: Gendered Violence in the Graphic Practice of Urs Graf
Part 2: Seventeenth-Century Spain to the American Civil War: Misfits, Wounded Bodies, and Medical Specimens
5. Destierro and Desengaño: The Disabled Body in Golden Age Spanish Portraiture
6. An Inartistic Interest: Civil War Medicine, Disability, and the Art of Thomas Eakins
7. Empty Sleeves and Bloody Shirts: Disabled American Civil War Veterans and Presidential Campaigns, 1864–1880
Part 3: Modernism, Metaphor, and Corporeality
8. Deaf Gain: Toulouse-Lautrec’s Early Training with René Princeteau
9. Manet’s Syphilis: Masculinity, Debility, and Adaptation in the 1880s
10. Facially Disfigured Veterans of World War I in Present-day Art: An Art Historical Analysis Against the Background of Medical History
11. Disability Metaphor and American Individualism: Beyond the Glass Menagerie
12. "Building the World of Tomorrow": Disability, Eugenics, and Sculpture at the 1939 New York World’s Fair
13. Aesthetics of Disability and the Hybrid Body in Louise Bourgeois’s Femme Maison
Part 4: Contemporary Art: Crips, Care, and Portraiture
14. Listening to the Queer-crip Body of Derek Jarman’s Blue
15. Collaborative Portraiture: A Feminist Disability Studies Approach to the Work of Riva Lehrer and Tanya Raabe-Webber
16. On Carolyn Lazard’s Support System (for Tina, Park, and Bob): An Account
