For dear life : art, medicine, and disability /
In recent years, the art world has seen an explosion of activity confronting issues of illness, disability, and the vulnerability of the human body. This development, which was set in motion by disability justice movements of the twenty-first century, accelerated at the start of the COVID-19 pandemi...
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| Language: | English |
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San Diego :
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,
[2024]
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| Summary: | In recent years, the art world has seen an explosion of activity confronting issues of illness, disability, and the vulnerability of the human body. This development, which was set in motion by disability justice movements of the twenty-first century, accelerated at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Contemporary artists with disabilities and chronic illnesses have produced influential bodies of art and writing, seeking to highlight relations of mutual dependence and practices of care. These artists have dramatically expanded discourse about access, while reframing disability as a refusal to conform to the pace, architecture, and economic conditions of contemporary life. For Dear Life explores how this turn was preceded by the work of artists and activists beginning in the 1960s and 1970s. Informed by intersecting movements that included civil rights, antiwar, women's and gay liberation, and disability rights, artists of that era represented the body in works that merged the personal and political. This book, and the accompanying exhibition, surveys artistic responses to vulnerability, illness, impairment, and forms of unruly embodiment, tracing artistic legacies that have shaped contemporary currents in art. Gathering an intergenerational group of artists from across the United States, the project illuminates connections among art practices, social movements, and medical events of the past and present. -- Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | Featuring works by : Laura Aguilar -- Carlos Almaraz -- Ida Applebroog -- Ron Athey -- Rina Banerjee -- Nayland Blake -- Barbara Bloom -- Gregg Bordowitz -- John Boskovich -- Morris Broderson -- Beverly Buchanan -- Lisa Bufano -- Jerome Caja -- Sophie Calle -- Patty Chang -- King Cobra -- Tee A. Corinne -- Moyra Davey -- Zeinabu irene Davis -- Jay DeFeo -- Emory Douglas -- Angela Ellsworth and TT Takemoto -- Simone Fattal -- Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose -- LaToya Ruby Frazier -- Pippa Garner -- Nan Goldin -- Felix Gonzalez-Torres -- Milford Graves -- Joseph Grigely -- Anna Halprin -- Barbara Hammer -- Ester Hernandez -- Lynn Hershman Leeson -- David Hockney -- Camille Holvoet -- Tishan Hsu -- Kim Jones -- Christine Sun Kim -- Stephen Lapthisophon -- Liz Larner -- Carolyn Lazard -- Riva Lehrer -- Simone Leigh -- Zoe Leonard -- Fred Lonidier -- James Luna -- Guadalupe Maravilla -- Park McArthur -- Juanita McNeely -- Amalia Mesa-Bains -- Mundo Meza -- Frank Moore -- Frank C. Moore -- Ray Navarro -- Senga Nengudi -- Alison O'Daniel -- Pauline Oliveros -- Carmen Papalia -- Howardena Pindell -- Pope.L -- Yvonne Rainer -- Niki de Saint Phalle -- Judith Scott -- Katherine Sherwood -- Hollis Sigler -- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith -- Kiki Smith -- P. Staff -- Liza Sylvestre -- Sunaura Taylor -- Joey Terrill -- Rigoberto Torres -- Mary Ann Unger -- Kaari Upson -- Catherine Wagner -- Charles White -- Hannah Wilke -- David Wojnarowicz -- Martin Wong -- Richard Yarde -- Sandie (Chun-Shan) Yi -- Liz Young -- Constantina Zavitsanos. |
| Physical Description: | 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781477331026 1477331026 |