Part 1 Historical and Religious Framings of Art and Disability 1. Valdivia Statuettes and Hybridity in the Americas of 3500-2500 BCE: An Indigenous Critical Disability Perspective 2. Madness in Classical Greek Art 3. Blindness from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era and its Depiction in Art 4. Bodies of Difference: Disability and Otherness in the Twelfth-Century Japanese Yamai no s shi 5. Disability in Ancient Indian Art and Aesthetic Theory: The Case of Bibhatsa and Bhayanaka Rasas 6. Ability and Disability in the Pictorial Vitae of Beata Fina in Fifteenth-Century San Gimignano 7. Disability, the Body, and Geopolitics: Lam Qua's Nineteenth-Century Portraits 8. Art History's Co-Inhabitants: Disabled Artistic Approaches to Indigeneity Part 2 Ableism and Disablism: Constructing Notions of Idealized Bodies 9. The Afflicted Body of Job and the Aesthetic of Wholeness in Gothic Sculpture 10. Able-bodied and Disabled Dwarfs in Italian Renaissance Art and Culture 11. The Broken Body as Devotional Mediator in Seventeenth-Century Spain 12. Charles Lang Freer: Collecting the Disabled Body 13. Exercising "Disciplinary Power": The "Compulsory Visibility" of Lewis Hine's 1917 Photographs of Laboring-Class Teen Women with Scoliosis 14. Eternal Youth: Fascism, Eugenics, and the Ideal Body at Rockefeller Center's Palazzo d'Italia 15. Masculinity and Disability in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial 16. Pieces of Cake Part 3 Towards an Aesthetics of Disability 17. Blinding Sight: Vision and Spectacles in John Haberle's Trompe l'Oeil Paintings 18. On Not Seeing or Feeling: Embodying Disability in Viennese Modern Art 19. Fragmented Bodies: Ideal Beauty and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Art and Science 20. The Aesthetics of Prosthetics: From the Premodern Uncanny to the Postmodern Imaginary 21. Introducing Crip Materiality: Mad Objects and Soft Screw 22. Sign Language Music Videos: Language Preservation or Appropriation? 23. Grow Your Brain! Contemporary Art on the Autism Spectrum