Disabled Gaze

Multi-Sensory Perspectives on Art, Bodies and Objects

Inbunden, 2027

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Beskrivning

How does being disabled change the ways people experience the world and the things they create? This agenda-setting collection brings material, visual, artistic, and literary perspectives together to examine how disabled people have shaped representations of themselves in images, objects, and literature.Engaging with themes of cripping, resistance, and rethinking, the chapters unpack the creative, generative, and transformative approaches by which disabled people have aimed to capture power by controlling how they are perceived. Collectively the volume introduces the “disabled gaze”—an autonomous claiming of identity that disabled people use through making—as a guard against and redressing of ableism and stigma. The essays present a range of highly-illustrated case studies that center disabled people’s broader material worlds and resituate artefacts of all sorts, not just specialized design objects, as incubators for disability justice. These range from 19th-century ceramics depicting the British Sign Language manual alphabet, Claud Monet’s cataracts and their impact on his painting of the Water Lilies series, and the confraternities of artists with disabilities in early-modern Venice. Positioning the disabled gaze as both a theoretical model and an investigative lens, the collection affirms disabled people as subjects and the power of their gazes as they claim and assert their own performances, identity, and citizenship.Cutting edge in its interdisciplinary approach, the volume moves beyond the disabled gaze as a tactic limited to visual or optical acts of perception, with authors considering how the disabled gaze can be enacted through acts of touch—the “graze”—or even sound. Across the volume, disability itself comes to encompass multiple acts of making, shaping, sensing, and perceiving, and provides a vital perspective on how subjectivity is created through visual and material artefacts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-07
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350591837

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Designhistoria inom Kultur
Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jaipreet Virdi is Associate Professor of History at the University of Victoria, Canada. She is author of two books: Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History (2020) and Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain (2024). Jennifer Van Horn is Professor in Art History & History at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of The Power of Objects in British North America (2017) and Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery (2023).

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsForeword: Facing the Disabled Gaze: Intimacy and Vulnerability Between Artist, Subject, and Friends, Riva Lehrer (Art Institute of Chicago, USA) and Sharonna Pearl (Texas Christian University, USA)1. Introducing the Disabled Gaze, Jaipreet Virdi and Jennifer Van Horn (University of Victoria, Canada & University of Delaware, USA)Part One: Materializing2. ‘compelled to pad and wad’: Spinal Curvatures and Dress in Mid-19th-Century America, Emily Bach (National Museum of African American History and Culture, USA)3. The Unperfected Frame: Orthopedic Fitness Devices and the Making of the Modern Healthy Woman in Britain and the United States, Madeleine Ware (Yale University, USA)4. People of the Eye, Ann Hewitt (Detroit Institute of Arts, USA)Part Two: Gaining5. ‘Without the Help of a Perfect Limb’: Investigating Martha Ann Honeywell’s Material Legacy, Rebecca Lo Presti (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA )6. Pictorial Evocations: Deafness and Multisensory Reception of Early Modern Art, Barbara A. Kaminska (Sam Houston State University, USA)7. Performing the Disability Gaze: The Case of Auguste Renoir, Elizabeth Guffey (Purchase College, USA)Part Three: Resisting8. Blind Venetians Gaze Back: Confraternity, Neighborhood, and Disability in Early Modern Venice, Julia A. DeLancey (University of Mary Washington, USA)9. Telegraphic Mesmerism, John J. Garcia (American Antiquarian Society, USA)10. The ‘Tactile Gaze’ and 19th-Century Print Materials for the Blind, Amanda Stuckey (Central Penn College, USA)Part Four: Engaging11. Gazing Back: Photographic Histories of Disability, Cath Cartman (Photographer and independent scholar, UK)12. The Disabled Graze: A Tactile Approach to Tchotchkes, Hallie Ableman (University of Iowa, USA)13. Phenomenal Bodies: Exploring Disability in Scottish Academic Collections, Emily J. Hanson & Billy Rough (University of St Andrews, UK)14. The FM Unit: A Deaf Musical Response to Hearing Exams, Frank Mondelli (University of Delaware, USA)Index