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This volume analyzes representations of disability in art from antiquity to the twenty-first century, incorporating disability studies scholarship and art historical research and methodology. This book brings these two strands together to provide a comprehensive overview of the intersections between these two disciplines. Divided into four parts: Ancient History through the 17th Century: Gods, Dwarfs, and Warriors 17th-Century Spain to the American Civil War: Misfits, Wounded Bodies, and Medical Specimens Modernism, Metaphor and Corporeality Contemporary Art: Crips, Care, and Portraiture and comprised of 16 chapters focusing on Greek sculpture, ancient Chinese art, Early Italian Renaissance art, the Spanish Golden Age, nineteenth century art in France (Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec) and the US, and contemporary works, it contextualizes understandings of disability historically, as well as in terms of medicine, literature, and visual culture. This book is required reading for scholars and students of disability studies, art history, sociology, medical humanities and media arts.

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"Ann Millett-Gallant received her PhD in art history in 2005 and serves as Senior Lecturer for the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. She designs and teaches interdisciplinary online art history, visual culture, and women’s and disability studies courses. Her research bridges the disciplines of art history and disability studies. She is coeditor, with Elizabeth Howie, of Disability and Art History (Routledge, 2016). She has also published essays and reviews of art and film, and she enjoys painting and composing mixed-media collages. Elizabeth Howie is Professor of art history at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, USA. She specializes in modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on history and theory of photography. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007. Publications include ""The Dandy Victorian: Yinka Shonibare’s Allegory of Disability and Passing,"" in Disability and Art History (Routledge, 2016) coedited with Ann Millett-Gallant."

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