A short history of mental illness in art From Hogarth to Van Gogh, art has challenged our understanding of mental illness. Jonathan Jones’ shares his top ten for our mental health appeal ‘Vincent’s eyes are crystal blue, his gaze acute and…
Art History and Disability
Disability in Art History FIRST THINGS FIRST… This class will look at examples of the disabled human body as it has been represented in art history. What does it mean to be human? How is the body used and represented…
Bodily Perfection Polykleitos, Doryphoros, marble copy of bronze original, c. 450–440 BCE
Leeds Student film on Language 2016
People are Just People-History of Learning Difficulty
People are just people. But we put some of them into groups, draw a line around the group and stick a label on. Then we forget what we did. Instead, we say: Look at that group of people, they are naturally different from everyone else. But they aren’t naturally different. We made it all up.
A manifesto for Disability Equality The Trades Union Congress 2017 (TUC)
A manifesto for Disability Equality The Trades Union Congress (TUC) on the advice of its disabled members has published this manifesto to promote support for the steps needed to achieve equality for millions of disabled people in Britain and…
National Disability Arts Collection and Archive
The UK Disability Arts Movement is a unique movement which began in Britain in the 1970s. It was made up of a group of angry disabled people and their allies who broke barriers, helped change the law, and made great…
Dwarfs in the Arts: Diego Velázquez
Dwarfs in the Arts: Diego Velázquez http://www.pbs.org/pov/nobiggerthanaminute/diego-velazquez/ Long before any writing appeared about dwarfs, they could be found in artwork created in every culture and in every time period. Images of dwarfs were plentiful in the ancient world, in the…
Disabled artists life and works for KS2 and KS 3 students
Art KS2/KS3 2 sessions examining different disabled artists life and works. download
Richard III Distortion for propaganda, 1452 – 1485
Richard III, portrait with overpaint, c. 1504–20 View ‘Richard III, portrait with overpaint, c. 1504–20’ on the British Library website http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/richard-iii-portrait-with-overpaint-c-1504-20 This painting in the Royal Collection was first recorded in an inventory of Henry VIII’s collection and would have…