Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

by Ann Millett-Gallant (editor), Elizabeth Howie (Editor)

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

Ancient History through the 17th Gods, Dwarfs, and Warriors 17th-Century Spain to the American Civil Misfits, Wounded Bodies, and Medical Specimens Modernism, Metaphor and Corporeality Contemporary 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.

274 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 28, 2022

Reviews

[Ruby Bassford]

love to see an overview of where disability appears in art history, since disability has historically been silenced, and 'seemingly' unarchived in the past. A lot of interesting essays, learned a lot and had some journals reinforce ideas I had for a paper about religious depictions of disability in art and literature.