1st Edition

Art, Movement, and Disability Transcending the Beauty Paradigm

By Timothy W. Hiles Copyright 2026
126 Pages 15 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

126 Pages 15 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores how artists with disabilities have provided social, emotional, psychological, and physical context for understanding the complexities surrounding disability. Breaking new ground, this book uses an interdisciplinary-thematic approach to understanding disability through the eyes of contemporary practicing artists. In this sense, it has three broad objectives. First, to consider... Read more

Introduction  1. Transcending the Beauty Paradigm  2. The Conversation: Art, Self, and Other  3. Flipping the Script: Reclamation  4. Movement  5. Invisibility  6. Conclusion: The Unfinished Word

Biography

Timothy W. Hiles is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee, USA. His interdisciplinary approach has led to publications on philosophy and art, literature and art, and disability and art.