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Disability Aesthetics
Tobin Siebers, 2010
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Siebers argues that disability is not the opposite of beauty but one of modern art's defining resources: the wounded, nonstandard body sits at the center of how modern aesthetics actually works. A short, vivid, field-shaping book that reframes how we look at bodies on stage and in the gallery. The foundation for thinking about disability as artistry rather than deficit.
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▶ HOW TO ACCESS
Available at most academic libraries and from University of Michigan Press. An open-access edition is available through the publisher on Fulcrum (search "Disability Aesthetics Fulcrum").