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…
"Assessing the significance of the artistic activity of the mentally ill, Paul Klee recommended that the work of psychotic artists be "taken seriously, more seriously than all the public galleries when it comes to reforming today's art." This pioneering work, the first history o…