{"product_id":"for-dear-life-art-medicine-and-disability-9781477331026","title":"For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA visual study of how artists have shaped responses to disability from the 1960s to the Covid era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In recent years, the art world has seen an explosion of activity confronting issues of illness, disability, and the vulnerability of the human body. This development, which was set in motion by disability justice movements of the twenty-first century, accelerated at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Contemporary artists with disabilities and chronic illnesses have produced influential bodies of art and writing, seeking to highlight relations of mutual dependence and practices of care. These artists have dramatically expanded discourse about access, while reframing disability as a refusal to conform to the pace, architecture, and economic conditions of contemporary life. \u003ci\u003eFor Dear Life\u003c\/i\u003e explores how this turn was preceded by the work of artists and activists beginning in the 1960s and 1970s. Informed by intersecting movements that included civil rights, antiwar, women's and gay liberation, and disability rights, artists of that era represented the body in works that merged the personal and political. This book, and the accompanying exhibition, surveys artistic responses to vulnerability, illness, impairment, and forms of unruly embodiment, tracing artistic legacies that have shaped contemporary currents in art. Gathering an intergenerational group of artists from across the United States, the project illuminates connections among art practices, social movements, and medical events of the past and present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jill Dawsey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.6lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.90h x 9.60w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477331026","brand":"Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43311277670537,"sku":"9781477331026","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_ea90590a-8bbb-469f-a5db-2ba6f88148f1.jpg?v=1738050528","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/for-dear-life-art-medicine-and-disability-9781477331026","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}