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Biostratigraphy and Disability art: an introduction to the work of Jon Adams

Biostratigraphy and Disability art: an introduction to the work of Jon Adams
Biostratigraphy and Disability art: an introduction to the work of Jon Adams
This chapter focuses on the work of Jon Adams ? an artist who attributes some of his creativity and features of his work to his experiences of Asperger?s, Synaesthesia and Dyslexia. Adams is one of a growing number of self identified D/deaf and D/disabled artists who are utilizing their distinctive cognitive and/or corporeal capacities to create work which plays with the emotions and imaginations of an audience. Aesthetic discourse often rests on the concept of a normative body (Davidson 2008; Siebers 2010) however, the work of disabled artists, such as Adams, challenge such assumptions and build on the creativity which can stem from having a supposed disability. In this chapter we explore Adams?s work and the disability aesthetic it creates.
165-180
Routledge
Macpherson, Hannah
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Hawkins, H.
Straughan, E.
Macpherson, Hannah
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Hawkins, H.
Straughan, E.

Macpherson, Hannah (2015) Biostratigraphy and Disability art: an introduction to the work of Jon Adams. In, Hawkins, H. and Straughan, E. (eds.) Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters. UK. Routledge, pp. 165-180.

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This chapter focuses on the work of Jon Adams ? an artist who attributes some of his creativity and features of his work to his experiences of Asperger?s, Synaesthesia and Dyslexia. Adams is one of a growing number of self identified D/deaf and D/disabled artists who are utilizing their distinctive cognitive and/or corporeal capacities to create work which plays with the emotions and imaginations of an audience. Aesthetic discourse often rests on the concept of a normative body (Davidson 2008; Siebers 2010) however, the work of disabled artists, such as Adams, challenge such assumptions and build on the creativity which can stem from having a supposed disability. In this chapter we explore Adams?s work and the disability aesthetic it creates.

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Published date: 1 April 2015

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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/418921
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Author: Hannah Macpherson
Editor: H. Hawkins
Editor: E. Straughan

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