Introduction : enabling the image -- Disarming Venus -- Sculpting body ideals -- Performing amputation -- Exceeding the frame -- Conclusion : staring back and forth.
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This book visually analyzes images of the body in visual culture--from painting, sculpture, photography, and performance art to medical displays to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century freak show--placing the work of disabled and non-disabled artists in critical dialogue. Pursuing the agenda of disability studies, this book examines western art history and draws parallels to sexism, racism, classism, and heterosexism/homophobia.