Portraits of the insane : ThéodoreGéricault and the subject of psychotherapy /

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, straightforwardn...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Snell, Robert (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : Karnac, 2017.
Sujets:
Géricault, Théodore, > 1791-1824 > Criticism and interpretation.
Géricault, Théodore, > 1791-1824.
Mentally ill in art.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale dans l'art.
ART > History > General.
Medicine in the Arts
Mentally Ill Persons
Psychiatry > history
Mental Disorders > history
History, Modern 1601-
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. One Illustrations
  • ch. Two canvases unrolled
  • ch. Three Gericault, a biographical sketch
  • ch. Four Madness in modernity, 1656
  • 1789
  • ch. Five Revolution, Cabanis, Pinel, the asylum
  • ch. Six new account of the human: responses to Pinel's Traite
  • ch. Seven Golden Age of alienism
  • ch. Eight Gericault and the alienists
  • ch. Nine History painter
  • ch. Ten Surplus and the limits of interpretation.

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