I knew, before Easter break, that I was interested in looking at certain of Henri Matisse’s paintings as texts for my final paper. In the hope of clarifying my project, I decided to try to see as many of Matisse’s cutouts as possible over the break, which I spent in Paris with the Art History […]
Art and Knives
Before visiting Washington, I had never seen lobotomy knives in person. I’m not sure that I ever want to again. We were in a back room of the National Museum of American History surrounded by inventory of our nation’s cultural artifacts. I was mesmerized by the labels on drawers, the full glass cabinets, and […]
Picturing Disability in the Unpublished Image
When I spontaneously chose to start my Sunday Funday of museum trips with the National Geographic museum, I hadn’t actually intended to find anything specifically disability related. Especially not when I stumbled across a side exhibit, hidden in a building that was shrouded by the shadow of the larger, “real” National Geographic building, called something […]
Observations from DC
Day 1: Holocaust Museum I had known going into the museum that disabled individuals were among the first genocide victims in Nazi Germany. I assumed that disabled bodies posed some sort of affront to the aesthetics of physical perfection the Nazis valued so much, but I never considered the erasure of disability on a social […]
Simulating and Storytelling
The Davidson Research Initiative trip to Washington, D.C. helped me address a question I have been curious about since before I even enrolled in English 494: Disability and Literature. Last year, a campus speaker talked about about an exhibition in Atlanta called “Dialogue in the Dark.” This exhibition aims to allow people experience what the […]
Dismantling Societal Policing of the Disabled
The Disability and Literature 2013 Class trip to D.C. was such an amazing and informative experience for me. In addition to visiting several amazing museums and viewing mind-blowing artifacts up close, we enjoyed our stay in the comfort of the beautiful Palomar Hotel. Our class spent two days diving deep into the topic of disability […]
Materiality, Duality, and Disability History: Eye Color Slides
by Taylor Hamrick The Davidson Research Initiative (DRI)-funded trip to Washington D.C was transformative for me in terms of my understanding of the importance of material objects to disability history. I experienced numerous “ah-ha!” moments, particularly during our visit with the Smithsonian Museum of American History’s curator for the division of medicine and science, Katherine […]
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