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Refashioning the Classical Body as the Modern Body:The Venus de Milo, Disability Aesthetics, and Disabled Women’s Experiences
By Mario Martinez The Classical body’s grasp on art history has never faded, from antiquity, through the renaissance, to modernity. Excluding the avant-garde movements during the first decade of the twentieth century, a general trend in modern art has been to refashion the Classical body as the modern body. The latter bloomed in post-World War…
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URES 197: Disability and Art History for Undergraduate Research and Fellow Students
By Maya Kirkpatrick, and Mario Martinez Faculty mentor: Dr. Julia DeLancey 9:00-9:50am HCC 327 The aim of this project was to develop a chapter in the style of Anne D’Alleva’s Methods and Theories of Art History, a seminal text in the ARTH 303: Methods of Art History course. D’Alleva’s text provides an introduction and overview…