1st Edition
Portraits of the Insane Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy
By Robert Snell
Copyright 2017
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction , Illustrations , The canvases unrolled , Géricault, a biographical sketch , Madness in modernity, 1656–1789 , The Revolution, Cabanis, Pinel, the asylum , A new account of the human: responses to Pinel’s Traité , The Golden Age of alienism , Géricault and the alienists , History painter , Surplus and the limits of interpretation , Some Conclusions
Biography
Robert Snell
