Contemporary Art and Disability Studies.

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.

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.

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