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
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Disability aesthetics and the body beautiful: Signposts in the history of art Tobin Siebers 2008- Sculpture
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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…
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853–1890
Van Gogh and Mental Illness “One feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.” BY MARIA POPOVA Around the time that Tolstoy was tussling with depression and his spiritual…
Paula Rego, 1935–
Paula Rego and her son discuss unravelling the artist’s tortured life on film Paula Rego and the flying mermaids in her north London studio CREDIT: ©NICK WILLING/©NICK WILLING Lowenna Waters, Telegraph 23 MARCH 2017 • 1:00PM Awoman, in a black dress with bare…
Pablo Picasso, Blue Period Art and Depression
Pablo Picasso 1901-1904 Blue Period Art and Depression Self -Portrait The Blue Period (Spanish: Período Azul) is a term used to define the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1901 and 1904 when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only…