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Book/Printed Material Cognitive disability aesthetics : visual culture, disability representations, and the (in)visibility of cognitive difference

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Title

  • Cognitive disability aesthetics : visual culture, disability representations, and the (in)visibility of cognitive difference

Summary

  • "Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Benjamin Fraser's cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. Fraser expands upon previous research into physical disability representations and focuses on those disabilities that tend to be least visible in society (autism, Down syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia). Moving beyond established literary approaches analyzing prose representations of disability, the book explores how iconic and indexical modes of signification operate in visual texts. Taking on cognitive disability representations in a range of visual media (painting, cinema, and graphic novels), Fraser showcases the value of returning to impairment discourse. Cognitive Disability Aesthetics successfully reconfigures disability studies in the humanities and exposes the chasm that exists between Anglophone disability studies and disability studies in the Hispanic world."-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Fraser, Benjamin, author.

Created / Published

  • Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Headings

  • -  Aesthetics
  • -  Arts--Spain
  • -  Cognition disorders--Social aspects--Spain
  • -  Disability studies
  • -  Popular culture--Spain
  • -  Arts
  • -  Popular culture
  • -  Spain

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-257) and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xvii, 267 pages, illustrations)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HV1568.2

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019667768

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Fraser, Benjamin, Author. Cognitive Disability Aesthetics: Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the Invisibility of Cognitive Difference. [Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2018] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019667768/.

APA citation style:

Fraser, B. (2018) Cognitive Disability Aesthetics: Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the Invisibility of Cognitive Difference. [Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019667768/.

MLA citation style:

Fraser, Benjamin, Author. Cognitive Disability Aesthetics: Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the Invisibility of Cognitive Difference. [Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2018] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019667768/>.