Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Tenacious Life of the Hypothetical Blind Man
Chapter 2: Touching on Science
Chapter 3: Visible Braille, Invisible Blindness
Chapter 4: Touch Tourism
Chapter 5: Hearsay
Chapter 6: Dialogues with the Blind
Chapter 7: Audio Description Described
Chapter 8: What They Talk About When They talk About Art
Chapter 9: Blind Self Portraits: Studies in Blue and Bronze

About the Author

Georgina Kleege is Lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous books include Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller (2006) and Sight Unseen (1999).

Reviews

"This book makes a powerful contribution to the developing interdisciplinary conversation about how disability shapes and is shaped by culture." --Eliza Chandler, Disability Studies Quarterly
"Deeply felt yet utterly unsentimental, More Than Meets the Eye is especially acute in its understanding of the challenges in bringing the visual arts to those who cannot see them, and in its celebration of those who create visual art in defiance of their blindness." --Martin E. Jay, University of California Berkeley
"More than opening up a world of blindness to the sighted, Kleege offers insight on how vision shapes the way we know and live together and how the experience of blindness yields distinctive knowledge and unexpected art that is available to us all...Along the way, we learn what it means to gain blindness, rather than to lose sight." --Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University