Bibliographic Reference

Arising out of the disability rights movement of the 1980s, disability art is concerned with awareness, representation, and social justice around the lived experience of disability. While there has been much art scholarship that points to a disability aesthetic in earlier periods and genres of art (especially discussed by Tobin Siebers in Disability Aesthetics and in the edited volumes produced by Ann Millett-Gallant and Elizabeth Howie), the particular history offered here is one that is shaped by the disability rights movement, where disability politics, disability justice, and access aesthetics are primary motivations behind production by disabled practitioners.