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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Georgina Kleege (Lecturer, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780190604356ISBN 10: 0190604352 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 25 January 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Tenacious Life of the Hypothetical Blind Man Chapter 2: Touching on Science Chapter 3: Visible Braille, Invisible Blindness Chapter 4: Touch Tourism Chapter 5: Hearsay Chapter 6: Dialogues with the Blind Chapter 7: Audio Description Described Chapter 8: What They Talk About When They talk About Art Chapter 9: Blind Self Portraits: Studies in Blue and BronzeReviewsDeeply felt yet utterly unsentimental, More Than Meets the Eye is especially acute in its understanding of the challenges in bringing the visual arts to those who cannot see them, and in its celebration of those who create visual art in defiance of their blindness. --Martin E. Jay, University of California Berkeley More than opening up a world of blindness to the sighted, Kleege offers insight on how vision shapes the way we know and live together and how the experience of blindness yields distinctive knowledge and unexpected art that is available to us all...Along the way, we learn what it means to gain blindness, rather than to lose sight. --Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University Deeply felt yet utterly unsentimental, More Than Meets the Eye is especially acute in its understanding of the challenges in bringing the visual arts to those who cannot see them, and in its celebration of those who create visual art in defiance of their blindness. --Martin E. Jay, University of California Berkeley More than opening up a world of blindness to the sighted, Kleege offers insight on how vision shapes the way we know and live together and how the experience of blindness yields distinctive knowledge and unexpected art that is available to us all...Along the way, we learn what it means to gain blindness, rather than to lose sight. --Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University This book makes a powerful contribution to the developing interdisciplinary conversation about how disability shapes and is shaped by culture. --Eliza Chandler, Disability St udies Quarterly Deeply felt yet utterly unsentimental, More Than Meets the Eye is especially acute in its understanding of the challenges in bringing the visual arts to those who cannot see them, and in its celebration of those who create visual art in defiance of their blindness. --Martin E. Jay, University of California Berkeley More than opening up a world of blindness to the sighted, Kleege offers insight on how vision shapes the way we know and live together and how the experience of blindness yields distinctive knowledge and unexpected art that is available to us all...Along the way, we learn what it means to gain blindness, rather than to lose sight. --Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University Author InformationGeorgina Kleege is Lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous books include Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller (2006) and Sight Unseen (1999). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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