Disability in Art and Visual Culture

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What is Disability Studies?

-Ronald J. Berger and Loren E. Wilbers, “Disability and Society,” 1-20, “Perspectives on Disability,” 21-48, in Introducing Disability Studies 2nd
Edition (Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, Inc., 2021)

 

Disabled Representation

-Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “Disability and Representation,” PMLA, 120, no. 2 (March 2005), 522-527

 

Film Screening

- Watch: Crip Camp (2021)

 

What is Disability Aesthetics?

-Tobin Siebers, “Disability Aesthetics,” JCRT 7.2 (Spring/Summer 2006), 63-73

-Koren Solvang, “From Identity Politics to Dismodernism: Changes in the Social Meaning of Disability Art,” ALTER: European Journal of
Disability Research 6, no. 3 (2012), 178-187

 

Classicism and the Disabled Body

-Lennard Davis, “Visualizing the Disabled Body: The Classical Nude and the Fragmented Torso,” in Enforcing Normalcy: Disability,
Deafness, and the Body (London, New York: Verso Books, 1995), 126-157

 

Disability in Portraiture

-Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “Picturing People with Disabilities: Classical Portraiture as Reconstructive Narrative” in Re-Presenting
Disability (Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2010), 23-40

-Riva Lehrer, “Presence and Absence: The Paradox of Disability in Portraiture,” in Contemporary Art and Disability Studies (New York, NY:
Routledge, 2020), 185-202

 

Film Screening

- Watch: When Barbara Met Alan (2022)

 

Madness and the Avant-Garde

-W. Arnold, “The Illness of Vincent Van Gogh,” Journal of the History of Neurosciences 13, no. 1 (2014), 22-43

-Cody Dilistraty, “The Art of Madness.” The Paris Review, Feb 6, 2018

-Jean Dubuffet, “Anticultural Positions,” Arts Magazine 50, iss. 8 (April1979), 156-157

 

Film Screening

- Watch: At Eternity’s Gate (2018)

 

Film Screening

-Watch: Frida (2024)

 

Case Study: Frida Kahlo

-Hayden Herrera, “Frida Kahlo: The Palette, the Pain, and the Painter,” Artforum 21, no, 7 (March 1983)

-Emily Rapp Black, “Prologue,” 1-9, “The Crippled Body (Casa Azul),” 10-19, “Recovery Room (1978-86),” 49-76, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg
(Notting Hill Editions, 2021)

 

The Disabled Body on Camera

-Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “Politics of Staring: Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography,” in Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002), 56-75

-David Hervey, “The Enfreakment of Photography,” in The Disability Studies Reader, Fourth Ed. (New York: Routledge, 2013), 432-446

 

Imaging Deafness and Blindness

-Amanda Cachia, “LOUD silence: Turning Up the Volume on Deaf Voice,” The Senses & Society 10, iss. 3 (Spring 2016), 321-340

-Georgina Kleege, “Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eyewitness Account,” in The Disability Studies Reader, 447-455

 

Film Screening

-Watch: The Tuba Thieves (2024)

 

Disabled Performance

-Bree Hadley, “Introduction: Disability, Performance and the Public Sphere,” in Disability, Public Space, Performance and Spectatorship (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 1-33

--Park McArthur, Leslie Frye and Alice Sheppard, “Disability and Disabled Theater,” DIS Magazine

-Watch: Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty (2013)

 

Film Screening

- Watch: The Reason I Jump (2021)

 

Phenomenology of Illness

-Havi Carel, “Introduction,” 1-23, “Illness as dis-ability and health within illness,” 77-109, in Illness: The Cry of the Flesh (Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2019)

 

Art, Dependence , and Care

-Eva Feder Kittay, “The Ethics of Care, Dependence, Disability,” Ratio Juris 24, no. 1 (March 2011), 49-58

-Carolyn Lazard, “The World is Unknown,” Triple Canopy, iss. 24 (April 2019), 1-17

 

Film Screening

-Watch: Safe (1995)

 

Crip Cinema Archive 

 

Crip and Queer

-Robert McRuer, “Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Experience,” in The Disability Studies Reader, 369-378

-Ellen Samuels, "My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming Out,” in The Disability Studies Reader, 316-332

 

Contemporary "Outsider" Art

-Watch Create: The Artists Are Present (2011)

-Amanda Cachia, “From Outsider to Participant: Developmentally Disabled Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art,” Museums and Social Issues:
A Journal of Reflective Discourse 9, no. 2 (October 2014), 109-123

 

Film Screening

-Anne Millett, “‘Other’ Fish in the Sea: ‘Finding Nemo’ as an Epic Representation of Disability,” Disability Studies Quarterly 24, no. 1
(Winter 2004)

-Watch: Finding Nemo (2003)

 

Exhibitions

-For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 700 Prospect St, La Jolla, CA 92037

-Picturing Health exhibition, Best Practice Gallery, 1955 Julian Ave, San Diego, CA 92113