Disability Aesthetics
"Disability Aesthetics ambitiously redefines both 'disability' and 'aesthetics,' showing us that disability is central not only to modern art but also to the way we apprehend (and interact with) bodies and buildings. Along the way, Tobin Siebers revisits the beautiful and the sublime, 'degenerate' art and 'disqualified' bodies, culture wars and condemned neighborhoods, the art of Marc Quinn and the fiction of Junot Díaz---and much, much more. Disability Aesthetics is a stunning achievement, a...
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Explores the rich but hidden role that disability plays in modern art and in aesthetic judgments
1 Introducing Disability Aesthetics 12 The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification 213 What Can Disability Studies Learn from the Culture Wars? 574 Disability and Art Vandalism 835 Trauma Art: Injury and Wounding in the Media Age 1006 Words Stare like a Glass Eye: Disability in Literary and Visual Studies 1217 Conclusion: Disability in the Mirror of Art 134Notes 141Works Cited 151Acknowledgments 159Credits 161Index 163
