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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dawsey, Jill (Author), Casso, Isabel (Author)
Corporate Author: PST ART: Art & Science Collide (Project)
Other Authors: Schalk, Samantha Dawn (Contributor), Bellamy, Dodie (Contributor), Frantz, David Evans (Contributor), Cachia, Amanda, 1978- (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, [2024]
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Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword
  • Curators' preface
  • Holding on for dear life / Jill Dawsey and Isabel Casso-- Plates
  • Emory Douglas and the black disability politics of his revolutionary art / Sami Schalk
  • Lynn Hershman Leeson : Obfuscated self-display / Dodie Bellamy
  • Sick jokes, blasphemous rumors, and fabulous antics : West Coast artists respond to AIDS / David Evans Frantz
  • Here's looking at you : disability art at the turn of the twenty-first century / Amanda Cachia
  • Further reading
  • Exhibition checklist
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Illustration credits
  • Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Board and Staff
  • Index.