Honisch 2015
Honisch, Stefan Sunandan. "Moving experiences: Blindness and the performing self in Imre Ungar's Chopin." In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen–Moulton, Neil Lerner and Joseph Straus. Oxford: OUP, 2015. (Type: chapter) » Download PDFThe idea that a blind person “makes” his or her own space has been explored in the context of visual art. In their analysis of a painting by Susan Dorothea White titled “The Blind Woman of Annandale” (1998), Patrick J. Devlieger and Hubert Froyen (2006) explain that – in contrast to the artist’s own projections of blindness as a negative experience that bars her subject from full participation in the world, restricting her movements “and rendering her vulnerable” – this image suggests “the dynamism with which [the painting’s subject] ‘makes’ space …” Movement, positioning, and tactile pointing make the space real” (30).
