Disability Aesthetics

Name: Disability Aesthetics
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ISBN: 9780472051007

ISBN-10: 0472051008

ISBN-13: 9780472051007

Edition: 2010

Authors: Tobin Anthony Siebers

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"Disability Aestheticsambitiously 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 Diaz---and much, much more.Disability Aestheticsis a stunning achievement, a must-read for anyone interested in how to understand the world we half create and half perceive." ---Michael Berube, Paterno Family Professor in Literature, Pennsylvania State University"Rich with… examples of the disabled body in both historical and modern art, Tobin Siebers's new book explores how disability problematizes commonly accepted ideas about aesthetics and beauty. For Siebers, disability is not a pejorative condition as much as it is a form of embodied difference. He is as comfortable discussing the Venus de Milo as he is discussing Andy Warhol.Disability Aestheticsis a prescient and much-needed contribution to visual & critical studies." ---Joseph Grigely, Professor of Visual and Critical Studies, The School of the Art Institute of ChicagoDisability Aestheticsis the first attempt to theorize the representation of disability in modern art and visual culture. It claims that the modern in art is perceived as disability, and that disability is evolving into an aesthetic value in itself. It argues that the essential arguments at the heart of the American culture wars in the late twentieth century involved the rejection of disability both by targeting certain artworks as "sick" and by characterizing these artworks as representative of a sick culture. The book also tracks the seminal role of National Socialism in perceiving the powerful connection between modern art and disability. It probes a variety of central aesthetic questions, producing a new understanding of art vandalism, an argument about the centrality of wounded bodies to global communication, and a systematic reading of the use put to aesthetics to justify the oppression of disabled people. In this richly illustrated and accessibly written book, Tobin Siebers masterfully demonstrates the crucial roles that the disabled mind and disabled body have played in the evolution of modern aesthetics, unveiling disability as a unique resource discovered by modern art and then embraced by it as a defining concept.Tobin Siebers is V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature and Art and Design at the University of Michigan. His many books includeDisability TheoryandThe Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity.A volume in the series Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 2/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English




Introducing Disability Aesthetics



The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification



What Can Disability Studies Learn from the Culture Wars?



Disability and Art Vandalism



Trauma Art: Injury and Wounding in the Media Age



Words Stare like a Glass Eye: Disability in Literary and Visual Studies



Conclusion: Disability in the Mirror of Art


Notes


Works Cited


Acknowledgments


Credits


Index