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Disability art is about exploring the conceptual ideas and physical realities of what it is like to be disabled or concepts relating to the word. Disability art is different from disability in the arts which refers more to the active participation or representation of disabled people in the arts rather than the context of the work being about ...
The disabled insane criminal in this film also touches on another stereotype, the one of the disabled person exacting revenge on the non-disabled world. This reaction assumes the nefarious character also has a loss of humanity. [80] Also, the expressionist style of shooting, gives the viewer a distinct perspective of a mentally disabled person.
The ostracization of disability from mainstream society has created the opportunity for a disability culture to emerge. While disabled activists still promote the integration of disabled people into mainstream society, several disabled-only spaces have been created to foster a disability community—such as with art, social media, and sports.
Theatre and disability is a subject focusing on the inclusion of disability within a theatrical experience, enabling cultural and aesthetic diversity in the arts. Showing disabled bodies on stage can be to some extent understood as a political aesthetic as it challenges the predominately abled audience's expectations as well as traditional theatre conventions.
A blind man carrying a paralyzed man on his back in the Levant, photo by Tancrède Dumas, circa 1889. The first photographer to become widely known for depicting the visibly disabled was Diane Arbus, active in the 1950s and 1960s. [35] Her photographs, which are in fact art photographs, have been, and remain, highly controversial. [36]
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In 1975, the UK organization Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS) [10] claimed: "In our view it is society which disables physically impaired people. Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society."
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