Window shopping with Helen Keller : architecture and disability in modern culture / David Serlin.

Main entry:

Serlin, David, author.

Title & Author:

Window shopping with Helen Keller : architecture and disability in modern culture / David Serlin.

Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2025.

Description:

237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-229) and index.
The church of the Elephant Man -- Helen Keller and the urban archive -- Disabling the WPA -- Overdue at the library -- Epilogue : 1968.

Summary:

"A particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture. Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with sensory and physical impairments navigated urban spaces and helped to shape modern culture. Through four case studies--the lives of Joseph Merrick (aka "The Elephant Man") and Helen Keller, the projects of the Works Progress Administration, and the design of the Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped--Serlin offers a new history of modernity's entanglements with disability"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780226748962 hardcover
0226748960 hardcover
9780226748979 paperback
0226748979 paperback
electronic book
9780226834580

Subject:

Merrick, Joseph Carey, 1862-1890.
Keller, Helen, 1880-1968.
United States. Work Projects Administration.
Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
Architecture Human factors History.
Architecture Human factors Case studies.
People with disabilities History 19th century.
People with disabilities History 20th century.
Architecture Facteurs humains Histoire.
Architecture Facteurs humains Études de cas.
Personnes handicapées Histoire 19e siècle.
Personnes handicapées Histoire 20e siècle.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320740
Call No.: 320740
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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