Madness Art And Society

Author : Anna Harpin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351371049

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Madness, Art, and Society by Anna Harpin Pdf

How is madness experienced, treated, and represented? How might art think around – and beyond – psychiatric definitions of illness and wellbeing? Madness, Art, and Society engages with artistic practices from theatre and live art to graphic fiction, charting a multiplicity of ways of thinking critically with, rather than about, non-normative psychological experience. It is organised into two parts: ‘Structures: psychiatrists, institutions, treatments’, illuminates the environments, figures and primary models of psychiatric care, reconsidering their history and contemporary manifestations through case studies including David Edgar’s Mary Barnes and Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. ‘Experiences: realities, bodies, moods’, promblematises diagnostic categories and proposes more radically open models of thinking in relation to experiences of madness, touching upon works such as Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko and Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places, and Things. Reading its case studies as a counter-discourse to orthodox psychiatry, Madness, Art, and Society seeks a more nuanced understanding of the plurality of madness in society, and in so doing, offers an outstanding resource for students and scholars alike.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307833105

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Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault Pdf

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 : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691166155

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Madness in Civilization by Andrew Scull Pdf

Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.

Author : Helen Goodman,Bernadette V. Russo,Joana Zózimo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Mental illness
ISBN : 9004371621

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Beyond These Walls: Confronting Madness in Society, Literature and Art by Helen Goodman,Bernadette V. Russo,Joana Zózimo Pdf

Author : Louis Arnorsson Sass
Publisher : International Perspectives in
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0198779291

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Madness and Modernism by Louis Arnorsson Sass Pdf

Madness and Modernism provides a phenomenological study of schizophrenic disorders, criticizing some standard conceptions of these disorders. Sass argues that many aspects of this group of disorders can actually involve more sophisticated (albeit dysfunctional) forms of mind and experience.

Author : Charlie English
Publisher : Random House
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525512059

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The Gallery of Miracles and Madness by Charlie English Pdf

The untold story of Hitler’s war on “degenerate” artists and the mentally ill that served as a model for the “Final Solution.” “A penetrating chronicle . . . deftly links art history, psychiatry, and Hitler’s ideology to devastating effect.”—The Wall Street Journal As a veteran of the First World War, and an expert in art history and medicine, Hans Prinzhorn was uniquely placed to explore the connection between art and madness. The work he collected—ranging from expressive paintings to life-size rag dolls and fragile sculptures made from chewed bread—contained a raw, emotional power, and the book he published about the material inspired a new generation of modern artists, Max Ernst, André Breton, and Salvador Dalí among them. By the mid-1930s, however, Prinzhorn’s collection had begun to attract the attention of a far more sinister group. Modernism was in full swing when Adolf Hitler arrived in Vienna in 1907, hoping to forge a career as a painter. Rejected from art school, this troubled young man became convinced that modern art was degrading the Aryan soul, and once he had risen to power he ordered that modern works be seized and publicly shamed in “degenerate art” exhibitions, which became wildly popular. But this culture war was a mere curtain-raiser for Hitler’s next campaign, against allegedly “degenerate” humans, and Prinzhorn’s artist-patients were caught up in both. By 1941, the Nazis had murdered 70,000 psychiatric patients in killing centers that would serve as prototypes for the death camps of the Final Solution. Dozens of Prinzhorn artists were among the victims. The Gallery of Miracles and Madness is a spellbinding, emotionally resonant tale of this complex and troubling history that uncovers Hitler’s wars on modern art and the mentally ill and how they paved the way for the Holocaust. Charlie English tells an eerie story of genius, madness, and dehumanization that offers readers a fresh perspective on the brutal ideology of the Nazi regime.

Author : Charlie English
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780008299644

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The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler’s first Mass-Murder Programme by Charlie English Pdf

‘A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler’s war on modern art and the mentally ill.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004308534

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Encountering Crises of the Mind by Anonim Pdf

Encountering Crises of the Mind offers social and cultural historical perspectives to mental illness from late medieval times to modern age.

Author : Gemma Blackshaw,Leslie Topp
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015080842647

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Madness and Modernity by Gemma Blackshaw,Leslie Topp Pdf

With its focus on a specific place and time (Vienna in 1900) and on a specific theme (madness), Madness and Modernity sets out to explore artistic, social and psychological themes which provide insights into the madness-modernity nexus that manifested itself in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Jon Venn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030797829

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Madness in Contemporary British Theatre by Jon Venn Pdf

This book considers the representation of madness in contemporary British theatre, examining the rich relationship between performance and mental health, and questioning how theatre can potentially challenge dominant understandings of mental health. Carefully, it suggests what it means to represent madness in theatre, and the avenues through which such representations can become radical, whereby theatre can act as a site of resistance. Engaging with the heterogeneity of madness, each chapter covers different attributes and logics, including: the constitution and institutional structures of the contemporary asylum; the cultural idioms behind hallucination; the means by which suicide is apprehended and approached; how testimony of the mad person is interpreted and encountered. As a study that interrogates a wide range of British theatre across the past 30 years, and includes a theoretical interrogation of the politics of madness, this is a crucial work for any student or researcher, across disciplines, considering the politics of madness and its relationship to performance.

Author : Kaira M. Cabañas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226556314

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Learning from Madness by Kaira M. Cabañas Pdf

Throughout the history of European modernism, philosophers and artists have been fascinated by madness. Something different happened in Brazil, however, with the “art of the insane” that flourished within the modernist movements there. From the 1920s to the 1960s, the direction and creation of art by the mentally ill was actively encouraged by prominent figures in both medicine and art criticism, which led to a much wider appreciation among the curators of major institutions of modern art in Brazil, where pieces are included in important exhibitions and collections. Kaira M. Cabañas shows that at the center of this advocacy stood such significant proponents as psychiatrists Osório César and Nise da Silveira, who championed treatments that included painting and drawing studios; and the art critic Mário Pedrosa, who penned Gestaltist theses on aesthetic response. Cabañas examines the lasting influence of this unique era of Brazilian modernism, and how the afterlife of this “outsider art” continues to raise important questions. How do we respect the experiences of the mad as their work is viewed through the lens of global art? Why is this art reappearing now that definitions of global contemporary art are being contested? Learning from Madness offers an invigorating series of case studies that track the parallels between psychiatric patients’ work in Western Europe and its reception by influential artists there, to an analogous but altogether distinct situation in Brazil.

Author : H. Prinzhorn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783662009161

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Artistry of the Mentally Ill by H. Prinzhorn Pdf

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 : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199608034

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Madness: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Scull Pdf

"Andrew Scull examines the social, historical, and culturally variable response to madness over the centuries, providing a provocative and entertaining examination of mental illness over more than two millennia."--P. [2] of cover.

Author : Rebecca Reich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609092337

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State of Madness by Rebecca Reich Pdf

What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. Situating literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power, this bold interdisciplinary study will appeal to literary specialists; historians of culture, science, and medicine; and scholars and students of the Soviet Union and its legacy for Russia today.

Author : Nicola Shaughnessy,Philip Barnard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474260862

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Performing Psychologies by Nicola Shaughnessy,Philip Barnard Pdf

Performing Psychologies offers new perspectives on arts and health, focussing on the different ways in which performance interacting with psychology can enhance understanding of the mind. The book challenges stereotypes of disability, madness and creativity, addressing a range of conditions (autism, dementia and schizophrenia) and performance practices including staged productions and applied work in custodial, health and community settings. Featuring case studies ranging from Hamlet to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the pioneering work of companies such as Spare Tyre and Ridiculusmus, and embracing dance and music as well as theatre and drama, the volume offers new perspectives on the dynamic interactions between performance, psychology and states of mind. It contains contributions from psychologists, performance scholars, therapists and healthcare professionals, who offer multiple perspectives on working through performance-based media. Presenting a richly interdisciplinary and collaborative investigation of the arts in practice, this volume opens up new ways of thinking about the performance of psychologies, and about how psychologies perform.