A slideshow connected to a lecture on artists whose work deals with issues of disability available at Art History Teaching Resources (http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/), written by Keri Watson.

1. Disability in Art
History

2. • Historical Representations of Disability
• “Freakshows,” Power, and Privilege
• Body, Performance, and the Posthuman

3. Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas,1656.

4. • How much have we learned about the
lives and impact of people with
disabilities throughout history?
• Why might that be?

5. Historical Representations of Disability

6. Polykleitos, Doryphoros, marble copy of
bronze original, c. 450–440 BCE.
Old Market Woman, 150–100 BCE.

7. El Greco, The Miracle of Christ Healing the Blind, c. 1570.

8. Mosaic of Christ Healing the Lepers, Monreale Cathedral, Palermo, Italy, c. 1180s.

9. Crippled Child, Lutrell Psalter, 1325. Man with crutches, Luttrell Psalter.

10. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Beggars, 1568.

11. Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter and John Healing
the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple, 1659.
Francisco Goya, Beggars Who
Get about on Their Own in
Bordeaux, 1824–27.

12. Théodore Géricault, A Woman Addicted to Gambling (L) and A Woman Suffering from
Obsessive Envy, A Kleptomaniac (R) from the series Portraits of the Insane, 1822.

13. Lon Chaney as Quasimodo and Patsy
Ruth Miller as Esmeralda in The
Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1923.
Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove in
Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Bomb, 1964.

14. Francis Galton, composite portraits “Health,
Disease, and Criminality,” (L) and “The
Jewish Type” (R), published in The
Photographic News, 1885.

15. “Freakshows,” Power, and Privilege

16. Hieronymus Bosch, Ship of Fools, 1490–1500.
Albrecht Dürer, frontispiece to
Sebastian Brant’s Ship of Fools,
1490–1500.

17. Velázquez, Portrait of Sebastián de
Morra, 1645.
Lavinia Fontana, Antonietta Gonzalez,
1656.

18. Phineas Taylor Barnum
and The American Museum

19. Charles Eisenmann
(1855–1927)

20. Eisenmann, Myrtle Corbin
“The Four-Legged Woman,” c. 1880.

21. Eisenmann, Eli Bowen
“The Legless Acrobat,” c. 1880.

22. Eisenmann, Charles B. Tripp
“The Armless Wonder,” c. 1880.

23. Marion Post Wolcott, Plant City, Florida,
Strawberry Festival and Carnival, March
1939.
Ben Shahn, Sideshow, County Fair,
Central Ohio, 1938.

24. Russell Lee, Untitled, Donaldsonville, Louisiana, 1938.

25. Reginald Marsh, Sideshow Sign at
Coney Island, c. 1939.
Eudora Welty, Sideshow Banner,
Mississippi State Fair, c. 1939.

26. Diane Arbus, A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, NY, 1970.

27. Arbus, Mexican Dwarf in his Hotel Room, New York City, 1970.

28. Arbus, Untitled, 1970–1.

29. Body, Performance, and the Posthuman

30. Otto Dix, War Cripples, 1920.

31. Dix, Scat Players, 1920.

32. Orlan, Self-Hybridizations, 1994–Present.

33. Stelarc, Third Arm, 1980–98.

34. Lisa Bufano, from Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, 2013.

35. Matthew Barney with Aimee Mullins, Cremaster 3, 2002.

36. Mary Duffy, Performance, 1995. Venus de Milo, 130–100 BCE.

37. Marc Quinn, Alison Lapper Pregnant, 2005.

38. Jake and Dinos Chapman, Übermensch (Portrait of Stephen Hawking), 1995.