{"product_id":"hospital-aesthetics-amanda-cachia-9781526187864","title":"Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Hospital aesthetics, Amanda Cachia introduces a broad array of contemporary artists who are engaging in relational aesthetic activism and socially engaged art practice. She analyzes practices in which artists are taking health and care into their own hands by making works that engage with the ever-subjective experience of being sick and ill. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first truly comprehensive monograph in critical disability studies to be grounded in a deep and scholarly understanding of modern and contemporary art practice, this work presents hospital aesthetics as a decolonizing gesture, wherein contemporary artists go against the tendency for the medical industrial complex to treat disabled bodies as specimens and, eventually, archives. Cachia aims to codify \"hospitable aesthetics\" as a category or genre of disability art that is more relevant now than ever before, as increasing numbers of artists turn to the hospital or doctor's office as a canvas, literally and symbolically.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amanda Cachia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526187868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526187864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Amanda Cachia","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46906810728703,"sku":"9781526187864","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_760ef36d-27d3-40e1-9fc2-285f7a90f0ac.jpg?v=1748771474","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hospital-aesthetics-amanda-cachia-9781526187864","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}