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ISBN: 1350435570

ISBN13: 9781350435575

The Aesthetics of Madness

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$32.95
Releases Oct 2, 2025
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This crucial history explores the role of philosophical thought in transforming the way that artwork emerging from mental hospitals in the early 20th century was treated. At first seen purely as a documentation of patients' symptoms, these expressions of creativity and often resistance gradually came to be assessed as art objects in their own right.

Howard Caygill plots the philosophical re-evaluation of the art of the mentally ill,...

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