Download or read book The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art written by Ann Millett-Gallant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the representation of disabled and disfigured bodies in contemporary art and its various contexts, from art history to photography to medical displays to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century freak show.