01732cam a2200193 i 4500 38492 38492 210204s2022 nyua b 001 0 eng 9780367500474 Disability and art history from antiquity to the twenty-first century / edited by Ann Millett-Gallant and Elizabeth Howie. New York Routledge 2020 xxi, 274p. : illu ; include index "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"-- People with disabilities in art. Art and society. Sociology of disability. Millett-Gallant, Ann, Howie, Elizabeth, BK N8236.P4 D573 2022 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC MAIN MAIN OOER 2024-05-17 GFT 0 N 8236 .P4D57 2022 00048736 2024-05-17 00:00:00 1 BK