IL in Geneva We gave evidence to the UN in August alongside our sister DDPOs Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations were hailed as “world leaders” by the UN for their efforts in bringing to light the injustices and human…
Disability in Medieval Art
A selection of medieval depictions of disability from Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts, Deirdre Jackson, 2007
Stephen Wiltshire, 1974–
STEPHEN WILTSHIRE Disability: Autistic Wiltshire was born in 1974 in London to West Indian parents. He is an autistic savant and world famous architectural artist. He learned to speak at the age of nine, and at the age of ten…
Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
Lord Byron by Ellen Castelow ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’. That is how Lady Caroline Lamb described her lover George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron and one of the greatest Romantic poets in English literature. As famous for his scandalous…
Early Graphic Illustration, Comic Strips and Disability
The history of printing goes back to the duplication of images by means of stamps in very early times. The use of round seals for rolling an impression into clay tablets goes back to early Mesopotamian civilization before 3000 BCE, they feature…
40 Facts about Tamerlane – Timur the Lame
40 Facts about Tamerlane – Timur the Lame Updated on April 19, 2015 Thomas Swan more Contact Author A reconstruction of Tamerlane’s face. | Source Who Was Tamerlane? Timur was a 14th Century Turko-Mongol military leader who conquered most of the Muslim…
Was Tamerlane disabled?
Disability history month: Was Tamerlane disabled? 4 December 2012 In today’s Magazine My life on a plate Starting a new life with nothing but a wild plot of land A ‘goodbye kiss’ to Cassini Belarus mushroom pickers chafe at ban…
Hogarth to Vagabondiana Examining Two visualisations of disability in C18TH by Simon Jarrett
Hogarth to Vagabondiana by Simon Jarrett We are going to look today at two visualisations of disability in the eighteenth century, firstly from the artist William Hogarth in the middle of the century and then in a book from 1817…
Disability aesthetics and the body beautiful: Signposts in the history of art Tobin Siebers 2008- Sculpture
Disability aesthetics and the body beautiful: Signposts in the history of art L’esthétique du handicap et la beauté du corps : des indications dans l’histoire de l’art Author links open overlay panelTobinSiebers Show more https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alter.2008.08.002Get rights and content Under an Elsevier user…
Tanya Raabe-Webber
Biography Tanya Raabe other wise known as Tanya Raabe-Webber was Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, has been a practising Visual Artist, devising artworks exploring and challenging identity, a disabled self and the nude in contemporary Art since 1987. She gained…