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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
Do you know any people who are seeing impaired? I can say that while my cousin doesn't get the opportunity to see a painting she can feel the paint strokes. She can see a carving or a statue - so the seeing impaired have greater access to the arts than you think. Also the book of Kells would be accessible for a blind person as long as the illustrations were raised and/or embossed.
There are also deaf people who dance - professionally.
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Yes I do... and again reality imposes its ugly face... nobody is going to get to run their fingers over the Book of Kells (and it wouldn't do much good as most of the illustrations are flat with little or no texture)... and I'm not talking about carvings or sculptures and feeling the paint strokes doesn't do a great deal of good if you aren't allowed to feel them, try asking the Louvre to let you grope the Mona Lisa? Why bring this up when I was talking about a specific hypothetical... This is typical of threads on this forum in that people can't be bothered with dealing with a specific point but have to drag in other things to change the discussion to suit themselves...
And deaf people who dance rely on the underlying beat/bass to stay with the music... not all music has this so I guess we should start adding bass to chamber music and violin concertos... not everything is available to everyone, this is life, it's not ideal but it is reality and surely it would be equally unfair to limit all works to things that can only be consumed by everyone?