The Discovery Of The Art Of The Insane

Author : John M. MacGregor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691000367
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of the Art of the Insane written by John M. MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major figures in the art world discovered the extraordinary power of visual statements by psychotic artists such as Adolf Wlfli and Richard Dadd. John MacGregor draws on his dual training in art history and in psychiatry and psychoanalysis to describe not only this evolution in attitudes but also the significant influence of the art of the mentally ill on the development of modern art as a whole. His detailed narrative, with its strangely beautiful illustrations, introduces us to a fascinating group of people that includes the psychotic artists, both trained and untrained, and the psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, critics, and art historians who encountered their work."The psychotics who haunt Mr. MacGregor's pages desperately fling images at us from the midst of their manias, suicidal depressions or paranoid reconstructions of the cosmos. . . . Mr. MacGregor is able to show that their work is by no means sealed off from culture. However private their visions, the ways they represent them in art are shaped to a surprising degree by the styles and taste that dominate their respective times. Mr. MacGregor has written a valuable, at times even a daring book."--Michael Vincent Miller, The New York Times Book Review

Author : H. Prinzhorn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662009161
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artistry of the Mentally Ill written by H. Prinzhorn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one is more conscious of the faults of this work than the author. Therefore some self -criticism should be woven into this foreward. There are two possible methodologically pure solutions to this book's theme: a de scriptive catalog of the pictures couched in the language of natural science and accom panied by a clinical and psychopathological description of the patients, or a completely metaphysically based investigation of the process of pictorial composition. According to the latter, these unusual works, explained psychologically, and the exceptional circum stances on which they are based would be integrated as a playful variation of human expression into a total picture of the ego under the concept of an inborn creative urge, behind which we would then only have to discover a universal need for expression as an instinctive foundation. In brief, such an investigation would remain in the realm of phenomenologically observed existential forms, completely independent of psychiatry and aesthetics. The compromise between these two pure solutions must necessarily be piecework and must constantly defend itself against the dangers of fragmentation. We are in danger of being satisfied with pure description, the novelistic expansion of details and questions of principle; pitfalls would be very easy to avoid if we had the use of a clearly outlined method. But the problems of a new, or at least never seriously worked, field defy the methodology of every established subject.

Author : J.M. MacGregor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The discovery of the art of the insane written by J.M. MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080327064X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing the Insane written by Sander L. Gilman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing the Insane is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has both reflected and shaped the perception and treatment of the mentally disturbed.

Author : Hans Prinzhorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983248002
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Insanity written by Hans Prinzhorn and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting ten case histories along with over ninety illustrations, this title focuses on the author's anthropological synthesis of psychoanalysis and art theory.

Author : Bettina Brand-Claussen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783884231159
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Reason: Art and Psychosis written by Bettina Brand-Claussen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Snell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429917406
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits of the Insane written by Robert Snell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1820s, in the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) made five portraits of patients in an asylum or clinic. No depictions of madness before or since can compare with them for humanity, straightforwardness and immediacy. The portraits challenge us to find responses in ourselves to the face and the embodied mysteries of the other person, and to our own internal (unsconscious, disavowed) otherness: in this sense, Gericault was a "painter-analyst". The challenge could not be more urgent, in our world of suspicion of the stranger, and of the medicalisation of madness. The book sketches the history of this last process, from the Enlightenment through to the Revolution and its public health policies, to the birth of the asylum in its interface with the penal system. But there was also a new medico-philosophical conviction that the mad were never wholly mad, and their suffering and disturbance might best be addressed through relationship and speech.

Author : Charlie English
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008299641
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler’s first Mass-Murder Programme written by Charlie English and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler’s war on modern art and the mentally ill.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307833100
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madness and Civilization written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.

Author : Susan Hogan
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1853027995
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing Arts written by Susan Hogan and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as providing an authoritative history of art therapy, it covers such diverse topics as the philosophy of art therapy, the way attitudes to insanity have changed, the role of art therapy in the context of post-war rehabilitation and the treatment of tuberculosis patients, Surrealism, and Britain's first therapeutic community.