The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032225947 ISBN 13: 9781032225944

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed.

This companion is organized thematically and includes artists from across historical periods and cultures in order to demonstrate the ways in which disability is historically and culturally contingent. The book engages with questions such as: How are people with disabilities represented in art? How are notions of disability articulated in relation to ideas of normality, hybridity, and anomaly? How do artists use visual culture to affirm or subvert notions of the normative body? Contributors consider the changing role of disability in visual culture, the place of representations in society, and the ways in which disability studies engages with and critiques intersectional notions of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality.

This book will be particularly useful for scholars in art history, disability studies, visual culture, and museum studies.

About this title

About the Author

Keri Watson is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Central Florida

Timothy W. Hiles is Associate Professor of Art History and Associate Director of the School of Art at the University of Tennessee.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032225947
• ISBN 13: 9781032225944
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Watson Keri, Hiles Timothy W.