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The discovery of the art of the insane

By: Material type: TextTextPrinceton, NJ Princeton Univ. Press c1989Description: xix, 390p; illus.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-691-04071-0
Subject(s): Abstract: '...MacGregor explores the process of discovery of psychotic art in the latter half of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries...This work will attract a wide audience of general readers, artists, and art historians, as well as those in the field of psychology and psychiatry.'
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Simon, Paul-Max : p103-15.. Prinzhorns, Hans : also, see index, p185-205.. Art, Modern : Expressionism and the art of the insane, p222-44 Psychosis and surrealism, p271-91 Dubuffet and the aesthetic of art brut, p292-308.. Lombroso, Cesare : p91-102.. Wolfli, Adolph : p206-21.. Dadd, Richard : see index.

'...MacGregor explores the process of discovery of psychotic art in the latter half of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries...This work will attract a wide audience of general readers, artists, and art historians, as well as those in the field of psychology and psychiatry.'

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