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Author Niestorowicz, Ewa Anna, author

Title The world in the mind and sculpture of deafblind people / by Ewa Anna Niestorowicz
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents The physical and mental abilities of people with simultaneous sight and hearing loss -- Sculpture as the result of creative activity -- Research methodology -- Creation of reality in sculptures by the deafbline -- scultprye by the deafblind as a sign, Semiotic analysis -- Sculptures by the deafblind assessed by the audience (students of the faculty of arts)
Summary The World in the Mind and Sculpture of Deafblind People discusses the creative capabilities of people with simultaneous impairment of sight and hearing. It is a pioneering interdisciplinary study combining theories from the fields of pedagogy, psychology, semiotics and theory of art. It presents a study of the act of creation performed by deafblind people, which makes it possible to propose a vision of reality as conveyed through their sculptures, and which forms a base for the scrutiny of the specific and individual ways of understanding the world and its visualisation in the minds of deafbli
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Artists with disabilities.
The arts.
Society & social sciences.
Psychology.
ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
Artists with disabilities
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443893763
1443893765