This volume analyzes the representation of disabled and disfigured bodies in contemporary art and its various contexts, from art history to photography to medical displays to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century freak show.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Enabling the Image Disarming Venus Sculpting Body Ideals Performing Amputation Exceeding the Frame Conclusion: Staring Back and Forth

About the Author

ANN MILLETT-GALLANT is Lecturer at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.

Reviews

"A significant, durable contribution. Highly recommended."--"CHOICE"

"There is little if any systematic work on the intersection between art history and disability studies. When a theory is broached, it usually comes down to the accusation that art has participated in the history of discrimination against disabled people. Millett-Gallant is able to discuss troubling aspects concerning disability in the history of art, and yet she finds a way to describe how these same troubling aspects resist discrimination. Hers is a complex idea of aesthetic representation, and her analysis does not fail to respect this complexity but, rather, dwells in it by providing a dense articulation of works of art, their allusions, and meanings. The book is of critical importance. It is the first of its kind."--Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan

"An important contribution to the growing field of disability studies, Millett-Gallant brings art history into contact and collaboration with the perspectiv