Portraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy

by Robert Snell

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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. Why were they painted? For whom? Art-historical ways of accounting for them open up questions about the nature of psychoanalytic...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1782202471

ISBN13:9781782202479

Release Date:September 2016

Publisher:Routledge

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"

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