| Description |
1 online resource (x, 176 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-169) and index. |
| Contents |
Performance and disability: An introduction -- 1. Practices of reading difference -- 2. Freaks, stages, and medical theaters -- 3. Deconstructing images : performing disability -- 4. Outsider energies -- 5. Encountering paralysis : disability, trauma, and narrative -- 6. New technologies of embodiment : cyborgs and websurfers. |
| Summary |
Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak show fantasies and 'medical theatre' as well as live art, webwork, theatre, dance, photography and installations, to cast an. |
| Subject |
Sociology of disability.
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People with disabilities and the performing arts.
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Artists with disabilities.
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Arts and society.
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Arts -- Political aspects.
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Social problems in art.
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Handicap -- Aspect sociologique. |
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Personnes handicapées et arts du spectacle. |
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Artistes handicapés. |
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Arts et société. |
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Arts -- Aspect politique. |
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Problèmes sociaux dans l'art. |
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Artists with disabilities |
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Arts and society |
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Arts -- Political aspects |
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People with disabilities and the performing arts |
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Social problems in art |
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Sociology of disability |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Kuppers, Petra. Disability and contemporary performance. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2003. 9780415302388 (DLC) 2003010108 |
| ISBN |
9781315016214 (e-book ; PDF) |
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1315016214 |
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9781136500336 (e-book ; PDF) |
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1136500332 |
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9781136500404 (e-book ; ePub) |
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1136500405 |
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9781136500473 (e-book ; Mobi) |
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1136500472 |
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(hardback) |
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(paperback) |
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0415302382 |
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9780415302388 |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9781315016214 doi |
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