The Agency of Access - Contemporary Disability Art & Institutional Critique

"In this book, Amanda Cachia argues that contemporary disabled artists make inequities in the museum more transparent by moving away from representations of disability. She argues that they instead create an art of access, where they engage in institutional critique, and demand agency, voice, empowerment, and social justice"--

About the author

Amanda Cachia is Assistant Professor of Arts Leadership and the Assistant Director of Arts Leadership in the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston. She is the editor of Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation, and a recipient of the 2023 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Cachia
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2024
• EAN: 9781439926239
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-2623-9
• No. of pages: 323
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories