"Ce livre conjugue des univers singuliers, met des mots sur des images, rend hommage aux inventeurs de l'impossible, souligne l'irrationnel de notre monde, salue la force des fragiles et nous invite à voir les mots et à lire les images d'un autre œil." JOHN R. PORTER Président d…
"Ce livre conjugue des univers singuliers, met des mots sur des images, rend hommage aux inventeurs de l'impossible, souligne l'irrationnel de notre monde, salue la force des fragiles et nous invite à voir les mots et à lire les images d'un autre œil." JOHN R. PORTER Président d…
This study demonstrates the implications of scientific discourse on Russian concepts of mental illness and national health. It examines the concept of pathology in Russia, the influence of European medical discourse, the development of Russian psychiatry, and the role that it ha…
This study demonstrates the implications of scientific discourse on Russian concepts of mental illness and national health. It examines the concept of pathology in Russia, the influence of European medical discourse, the development of Russian psychiatry, and the role that it ha…
This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major figures in the art world discovered the extraordinary power of vi…
This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major figures in the art world discovered the extraordinary power of vi…