Georgina Kleege
Biographic Data
| ID | 836007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georgina Kleege |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georgina |
| FAMILY NAME | Kleege |
| SIGNATURE | KLEEGE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-8191-2691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
No Longer the Only One in the Room
The article is an edited transcription of a three-way conversation, or trialogue, chronicling a collective participation in the emergence and growth of disability studies over the past thirty years. The authors divide their memories into specific sites or “rooms,” both public and private, where they discover the power and pleasure of uniting to create change. They map a journey from uncertainty and isolation in the past to solidarity and support …
The art of touch
This article describes three collaborative projects designed to explore tactile and haptic encounters with visual art. As a blind person, the author takes advantage of touch tours offered in many of the world’s museums. As rewarding as these can be, she often leaves feeling that there is something missing. She is aware that people who witness a touch tour for blind people, both companions who might be with them and strangers who might observe it,…
More than meets the eye
More Than Meets the Eye' seeks to dismantle traditional understandings of blindness through scrutiny of philosophical speculation, scientific case studies, literary depictions, and museum access programs for the blind. It introduces blind and visually impaired artists whose work has shattered stereotypes and opened up new aesthetic possibilities for everyone.
Hearsay
This chapter returns to Denis Diderot and speculates on how his life-long fascination with blindness may have influenced his theories on visual art. For example, why does he open “Notes on Painting” (1765) with a description of a blind woman? His Salon Reviews, which are considered by many to be foundational works of art criticism, employ a number of techniques to describe art work for people who could not see it for themselves. This chapter clos…
Audio Description Described
Audio description seeks to make visual media-film, television, theater, art exhibits-accessible to blind people. In this essay I use the audio-described version of the Oscar-nominated film The Sessions as an example of the current standards. I then speculate on future innovations that could democratize the medium and make it more inclusive
As if our friends felt the sun for us
The Subject at Hand
This essay describes the friendship between Denis Diderot, the Enlightenment philosopher and art critic, and Melanie de Salignac, a seventeen-year-old girl who had been totally blind since her infancy. I compare their discussion of her conceptualizations of visual phenomena to autobiographical accounts by blind people from the 19th century to the present, and to theories about brain plasticity developed by modern cognitive scientists who study im…
Signifying Bodies
Dialogues with the Blind
The article examines ways in which blindness and visual art are paired in a selection of visual culture theory and fictional texts. In many instances blindness functions as a metaphor connoting innocence or lack of agency. Blind people fascinate visual culture theorists for their putative reliance on touch rather than vision. But for some fiction writers, blind characters are interesting because they rely on language and thus can launch meditatio…
Introduction
Visible Braille/Invisible Blindness
With the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, braille signage began to appear in many public sites across the country. In many instances, however, the braille seems merely to refer to blindness rather than to aid blind people. Often, designers, though well-meaning, seem unaware of how braille is read or of the decline in braille literacy in recent decades. The use of braille serves as a visible gesture toward tolerance of…
Blindness and Visual Culture
This essay comments on W.J.T. Mitchell’s statement that ‘Visual culture entails a meditation on blindness, the invisible, the unseen, the unseeable, and the overlooked’. If visual studies entails a meditation on blindness, it is this article’s hope that it will avoid some of the missteps of similar meditations of the past. Specifically, it hopes that visual studies can abandon one of the stock characters of the western philosophical tradition: th…
What Her Body Taught (Or, Teaching about and with a Disability)
Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Georgina Kleege, What Her Body Taught (Or, Teaching about and with a Disability): A Conversation, Feminist Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 13-33
"Helen Keller and "The Empire of the Normal
It seems impossible to talk about disability memoir in America without mentioning Helen Keller. Certainly her first book, The Story of My Life (1903), is the disability autobiography that leaps most readily to mind. Moreover, most of Keller's writing centered on her own life, and during her long career she attempted every genre of life-writing: linear narratives, personal essays, a treatise on her religious belief, and a published journal recordi…
A True Story of Love and Horror
What Her Body Taught (Or, Teaching about and with a Disability)
Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Georgina Kleege, What Her Body Taught (Or, Teaching about and with a Disability): A Conversation, Feminist Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 13-33
Audio Description Described
Audio description seeks to make visual media-film, television, theater, art exhibits-accessible to blind people. In this essay I use the audio-described version of the Oscar-nominated film The Sessions as an example of the current standards. I then speculate on future innovations that could democratize the medium and make it more inclusive
As if our friends felt the sun for us
The Subject at Hand
This essay describes the friendship between Denis Diderot, the Enlightenment philosopher and art critic, and Melanie de Salignac, a seventeen-year-old girl who had been totally blind since her infancy. I compare their discussion of her conceptualizations of visual phenomena to autobiographical accounts by blind people from the 19th century to the present, and to theories about brain plasticity developed by modern cognitive scientists who study im…
"Helen Keller and "The Empire of the Normal
It seems impossible to talk about disability memoir in America without mentioning Helen Keller. Certainly her first book, The Story of My Life (1903), is the disability autobiography that leaps most readily to mind. Moreover, most of Keller's writing centered on her own life, and during her long career she attempted every genre of life-writing: linear narratives, personal essays, a treatise on her religious belief, and a published journal recordi…
A True Story of Love and Horror
"Helen Keller and "The Empire of the Normal
It seems impossible to talk about disability memoir in America without mentioning Helen Keller. Certainly her first book, The Story of My Life (1903), is the disability autobiography that leaps most readily to mind. Moreover, most of Keller's writing centered on her own life, and during her long career she attempted every genre of life-writing: linear narratives, personal essays, a treatise on her religious belief, and a published journal recordi…
Blindness and Visual Culture
This essay comments on W.J.T. Mitchell’s statement that ‘Visual culture entails a meditation on blindness, the invisible, the unseen, the unseeable, and the overlooked’. If visual studies entails a meditation on blindness, it is this article’s hope that it will avoid some of the missteps of similar meditations of the past. Specifically, it hopes that visual studies can abandon one of the stock characters of the western philosophical tradition: th…
What Her Body Taught (Or, Teaching about and with a Disability)
Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Georgina Kleege, What Her Body Taught (Or, Teaching about and with a Disability): A Conversation, Feminist Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 13-33
Visible Braille/Invisible Blindness
With the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, braille signage began to appear in many public sites across the country. In many instances, however, the braille seems merely to refer to blindness rather than to aid blind people. Often, designers, though well-meaning, seem unaware of how braille is read or of the decline in braille literacy in recent decades. The use of braille serves as a visible gesture toward tolerance of…
Introduction
Signifying Bodies
Dialogues with the Blind
The article examines ways in which blindness and visual art are paired in a selection of visual culture theory and fictional texts. In many instances blindness functions as a metaphor connoting innocence or lack of agency. Blind people fascinate visual culture theorists for their putative reliance on touch rather than vision. But for some fiction writers, blind characters are interesting because they rely on language and thus can launch meditatio…
The Subject at Hand
This essay describes the friendship between Denis Diderot, the Enlightenment philosopher and art critic, and Melanie de Salignac, a seventeen-year-old girl who had been totally blind since her infancy. I compare their discussion of her conceptualizations of visual phenomena to autobiographical accounts by blind people from the 19th century to the present, and to theories about brain plasticity developed by modern cognitive scientists who study im…
As if our friends felt the sun for us
Audio Description Described
Audio description seeks to make visual media-film, television, theater, art exhibits-accessible to blind people. In this essay I use the audio-described version of the Oscar-nominated film The Sessions as an example of the current standards. I then speculate on future innovations that could democratize the medium and make it more inclusive
More than meets the eye
More Than Meets the Eye' seeks to dismantle traditional understandings of blindness through scrutiny of philosophical speculation, scientific case studies, literary depictions, and museum access programs for the blind. It introduces blind and visually impaired artists whose work has shattered stereotypes and opened up new aesthetic possibilities for everyone.
Hearsay
This chapter returns to Denis Diderot and speculates on how his life-long fascination with blindness may have influenced his theories on visual art. For example, why does he open “Notes on Painting” (1765) with a description of a blind woman? His Salon Reviews, which are considered by many to be foundational works of art criticism, employ a number of techniques to describe art work for people who could not see it for themselves. This chapter clos…
The art of touch
This article describes three collaborative projects designed to explore tactile and haptic encounters with visual art. As a blind person, the author takes advantage of touch tours offered in many of the world’s museums. As rewarding as these can be, she often leaves feeling that there is something missing. She is aware that people who witness a touch tour for blind people, both companions who might be with them and strangers who might observe it,…
No Longer the Only One in the Room
The article is an edited transcription of a three-way conversation, or trialogue, chronicling a collective participation in the emergence and growth of disability studies over the past thirty years. The authors divide their memories into specific sites or “rooms,” both public and private, where they discover the power and pleasure of uniting to create change. They map a journey from uncertainty and isolation in the past to solidarity and support …
Art (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Blindness (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · History (5 works) · Optometry (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)