Disability Aesthetics - 9780472071005

Disability AestheticsAuthor(s): Tobin Anthony Siebers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472071005, 978-0472071005\nSynopsis\n\""Disability Aesthetics ambitiously 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 Daz---and much, much more. Disability Aesthetics is a stunning achievement, a must-read for anyone interested in how to understand the world we half create and half perceive.\""\n---Michael Brub, Paterno Family Professor in Literature, Pennsylvania State University\n\n\""Rich with examples of the disabled body in both historical and modern art, Tobin Sy