Millett-Gallant The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art

2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-48251-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 131 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

The second edition offers an essential update to the foundational first edition, The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art. Featuring updated chapters and case studies, this second edition will not only expand on the first edition but will bring a new focus to contemporary disabled artists and their embodied, multimedia work.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Millett-Gallant, Ann

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Millett-Gallant, PhD is Senior Lecturer for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Her online courses combine art history, visual culture, disability studies, and women’s and gender studies, and her books include The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art; Re-Membering: Putting Mind and Body Back Together Following Traumatic Brain Injury; and the coedited volumes Disability and Art History and Disability and Art History: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century. Millett-Gallant’s artworks have been displayed at universities and galleries in North Carolina. Her website is annmg.com.