Georgina Kleege (Lecturer, Lecturer, University of California, Berk

More Than Meets the Eye

What Blindness Brings to Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

More Than Meets the Eye seeks to dismantle traditional understandings of blindness through scrutiny of philosophical speculation, scientific case studies, literary depictions, and museum access programs for the blind. It introduces blind and visually impaired artists whose work has shattered stereotypes and opened up new aesthetic possibilities for everyone.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9780190604363
• ISBN-10: 0190604360
• Artikelnr.: 49139129

Autorenporträt

Georgina Kleege is Lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous books include Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller (2006) and Sight Unseen (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: The Tenacious Life of the Hypothetical Blind Man
Chapter Two: Touching on Science
Chapter Three: Visible Braille, Invisible Blindness
Chapter Four: Touch Tourism
Chapter Five: Hearsay
Chapter Six: Dialogues with the Blind
Chapter Seven: Audio Description Described
Chapter Eight: What They Talk About When They talk About Art
Chapter Nine: Blind Self Portraits: Studies in Blue and Bronze