Disability and Art History

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Disability and Art History is written by Ann Millett-Gallant and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1315439999 (ISBN 10) and 9781315439990 (ISBN 13).

This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies. Moving away from the medical model of disability that is often scrutinized in art history, the book considers the social model and representations of disabled figures. Topics addressed include visible versus invisible impairments; scientific, anthropological, and vernacular images of disability; and the implications of looking/staring versus gazing. Disability and Art History explores ways in which art responds to, envisions, and at times stereotypes and pathologizes disability, and aims to contextualize disability historically, as well as in terms of medicine, literature, and visual culture.