This volume analyzes the representation of disabled and disfigured bodies in contemporary art and its various contexts, from art history to photography to medical displays to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century freak show. INDICE: - Introduction: Enabling the Image - Disarming Venus - Sculpting Body Ideals - Performing Amputation - Exceeding the Frame - Conclusion: StaringBack and Forth
- ISBN: 978-0-230-10406-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha Publicación: 03/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés