Short description:

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.

Long description:

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 17^th Century: Gods, Dwarfs, and Warriors


• 17^th-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.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Ancient History through the Seventeenth Century: Gods, Dwarfs, and Warriors

1. Hephaestus Represented: a M?tis-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

5. Destierro and Desenga?o: 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

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

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