As part of a recurring series on the mechanisms, impacts and possible resolutions for discrimination in the art market, in honour of World Braille Day (Jan 4th) - my inspiration for this month - I'll be looking at how the art market treats visually impaired artists in their museums, how audiences view them, and how institutions are becoming more accessible to visually impaired audiences.

Research Sources:

10 Incredible Blind Painters’, www.everydaysight.com/blind-painters

‘How Eye Disorders May Have Influenced The Work Of Famous Painters’, www.theconversation.com/how-eye-disorders-may-have-influenced-the-work-of-famous-painters-92830

'Ten Ways Vision Impairment Influenced Classic Artists’, www.perkinselearning.org/technology/blog/ten-ways-vision-impairment-influenced-classic-artists

Degas: vision and perception, www.doi.org/10.1177/026461968800600308

Did Edgar Degas Have an Inherited Retinal Degeneration?, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13816810701351313

Eye diseases changed great painters' vision of their work later in their lives, www.news.stanford.edu/news/2007/april11/med-optart-041107.html

‘Ophthalmology and Art: Simulation of Monet's Cataracts and Degas' Retinal Disease’, www.archopht.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/archopht.124.12.1764

Aspects of Monet: a symposium on the artist's life and times, www.archive.org/details/aspectsofmonetsy0000unse

‘Claude Monet, 1840–1926 – UK Disability History Month’, www.ukdhm.org/claude-monet-1840-1926-visually-impaired-in-later-life/

Claude Monet, www.myilibrary.com?id=427197

‘Go Blind from Cataracts?’, www.impressionistarts.com/

Monet's years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism, www.b-ok.cc/book/2289364/82a118‘

Accessibility of culture and/or inclusion? The blind and visually impaired in Slovenia's museums www.researchgate.net/publication/305651971_Accessibilty_of_culture_andor_inclusion_The_blind_and_visually_impaired_in_Slovenia's_museums_Dostopnost_kulture_in_ali_inkluzija_Slepi_in_slabovidni_v_slovenskih_muzejih

‘Blindness, Art and Exclusion in Museums and Galleries’, www.researchgate.net/publication/36725938_Blindness_Art_and_Exclusion_in_Museums_and_Galleries

‘Blind and Visually Impaired Visitors’ Experiences in Museums: Increasing Accessibility through Assistive Technologies’, www.cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/blind-and-visually-impaired-visitors-experiences-in-museums

‘Evaluation of Touchable 3D-Printed Replicas in Museums’, www.researchgate.net/publication/322579966_Evaluation_of_Touchable_3D-Printed_Replicas_in_Museums

‘Discovering ‘Experience-ables’: Socially including visually impaired people in art museums’, www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02672571003780155

‘Best practice in making Museums more accessible to visually impaired visitors’, www.museumnext.com/article/making-museums-accessible-to-visually-impaired-visitors/

‘Art for the blind: Making Art Accessible to the Visually Impaired’, Medium, www.medium.com/@artsmelange/art-for-the-blind-making-art-accessible-to-the-visually-impaired-efcb4f0cfd37

‘Continue Painting with Vision Loss’, www.visionaware.org/everyday-living/recreation-and-leisure/arts-and-crafts/painting/

‘Democratising art: how the art world is opening up to blind and partially sighted visitors’, www.itsnicethat.com/features/brenda-sjahrial-blindness-art-270718

‘How the Art World is Making Way for the Visually Impaired’, www.mutualart.com/Article/How-the-Art-World-is-Making-Way-for-the-/40BD2955157C32C1

‘People with sight impairment in the world of visual arts: does it make any sense?’, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2018.1480261

‘The Role Of Museum And Sensory Design Of Rebuilding Place In Museology’, www.futureacademy.org.uk/files/images/upload/ICRP2019F067.pdf

‘Museum as a Sensory Space, www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/7/3061