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Autore |
Millett-Gallant Ann |
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Titolo |
The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art [[electronic resource] /] / by Ann Millett-Gallant |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-99232-5 |
9786612992322 |
0-230-10997-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2010.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (IX, 177 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social medicine |
Arts |
Performing arts |
Culture—Study and teaching |
Sociology |
Medical Sociology |
Performing Arts |
Cultural and Media Studies, general |
Sociology, general |
Fine Arts |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : enabling the image -- Disarming Venus -- Sculpting body ideals -- Performing amputation -- Exceeding the frame -- Conclusion : staring back and forth. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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