Contemporary Art and Disability Studies

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This book presents interdisciplinary scholarship on art and visual culture that explores disability in terms of lived experience. It will expand critical disability studies scholarship on representation and embodiment, which is theoretically rich, but lacking in attention to art. It is organized in five thematic parts: methodologies of access, agency, and ethics in cultural institutions; the politics and ethics of collaboration; embodied representations of artists with disabilities in the visual and performing arts; negotiating the outsider art label; and first-person reflections on disability and artmaking. This volume will be of interest to scholars who study disability studies, art history, art education, gender studies, museum studies, and visual culture. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Contributors List of Plates List of Figures Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction PART I Methodologies of Access, Agency, and Ethics in Cultural Institutions 1 Accessibility in and Beyond the Quagmire of the Present 2 For a New Accessibility 3 Inclusion Matters: “Are You Sure You Belong Here?” PART II The Politics and Ethics of Collaboration: Analyzing Social Practices in Communities 4 Participatory and Community-Based Contemporary Art Practices With People With Disabilities 5 DaDaFest Ensemble: Leadership, Voice, and Collaboration in the Arts 6 Post-Traumatic Stress Poetics in Socially Engaged Art: Healing as Praxis PART III Embodied Representations of Artists With Disabilities in the Visual and Performing Arts 7 The (Narrative) Prosthesis Re-Fitted: Finding New Support for Embodied and Imagined Differences in Contemporary Art 8 Basilisk and the Representation of Physically Disabled Women in Film 9 The Phenomenological Turn in Disability Arts: Crip Time and Disability Aesthetics 10 Intimacy and Illness: Visually Representing Lesbian Sexuality and Disability in Tee Corinne’s Scars, Stoma, Ostomy Bag, Portocath: Picturing Cancer in Our Lives 11 Bill Shannon: The Politics of Dancing PART IV Emerging From Anonymity: Negotiating the Outsider Art Label 12 Lee Godie: An Accidental Postmodernist Outsider 13 Dandies, Vamps, and Rockers: Sex and Disability in the Paintings of Aurie Ramirez PART V Life Writing: First-Person Reflections on Disability and Artmaking 14 Presence and Absence: The Paradox of Disability in Portraiture 15 Accidents Happen: An Art Autopathography on Mental Disability 16 Out of the Blue: Art, Disability, and Yelling 17 An Interview With Four Art Professionals With Disabilities About the Traps and Benefits of Opening Up About Them Index