1. The document discusses artistic and literary representations of Alzheimer's disease through the lenses of embodiment and selfhood. 2. It explores how paintings by artists with Alzheimer's disease, like Willem de Kooning, show how bodily movements and habits can persist despite cognitive decline. 3. Stories about interactions with mothers who have Alzheimer's demonstrate how familial recognition and social behaviors can remain through non-cognitive forms of knowing rooted in the body.

1. Artistic and Literary Representations of Alzheimer’s Disease: Philosophical Reflections on Embodiment and Selfhood Pia Kontos, PhD Research Scientist Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Assistant Professor Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto

4. The Painterly Hand: The Cases of Willem de Kooning and William Utermohlen

5. de Kooning Woman 1948

6. de Kooning Woman 1950-52

7. de Kooning Woman VI 1953

8. de Kooning Untitled V 1982

9. de Kooning Untitled XII 1982

10. de Kooning Untitled XV 1982

11. de Kooning Untitled XVII 1984

12. Utermohlen 1996

13. Utermohlen 1997

14. Utermohlen 1997

15. Utermohlen 1998

16. Utermohlen 1999

17. Utermohlen 2000