"Disability And Art History From Antiquity To The Twenty-First Century | Health & Social Care

This 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 medicine literature and visual culture. This book is required reading for scholars and students of disability studies art history sociology medical humanities and media arts. |Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century | Health & Social Care