Contemporary Art and Disability Studies

"Wexler (SUNY, New Paltz) and the late Derby, an independent scholar and art educator, collected works engaging critical disability studies and art, in terms of theory, methodology, and practice. Negotiating the concept of "outsider art," this collection includes analysis of visual art productions, primarily (self)-representations, first in the context of cultural institutions, in terms of literal and institutional accessibility, gatekeeping, and curatorial praxis. Recommended."

--Choice

"I feel as though this book—or chapters from this book—should be required reading forarts educators and policy makers and other arts professionals, particularly those who are non-disabled. For those not new to disability studies, this text provides context of a lesser-explored area within disability studies as a field: arts and cultural production. For those new to the tenetsupheld by disability studies, it also serves as a primer to language and concepts relevant to thearts but also disability studies itself."

--Research in Arts and Education

"...the chapters come together as a whole to make an argument for the relationality of disability as it appears in the art world and for the need for clear ethical and theoretical grounding for this work. Together they reflect the collaborative and intracitational nature of Disability Studies and its important implications for the contemporary art world."

--Disability Studies Quarterly