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Madness and modernity : mental illness and the visual arts in Vienna 1900 / edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Leslie Topp ; with contributions by Nicola Imrie ... [et al.].
- Title
- Madness and modernity : mental illness and the visual arts in Vienna 1900 / edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Leslie Topp ; with contributions by Nicola Imrie ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Aldershot : Ashgate, 2009.
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- Description
- p. cm.
- Summary
- 'Madness and Modernity' sets out to explore artistic, social and psychological themes to provide insights into the madness-modernity nexus that manifested itself in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition
- Exhibition catalogs
- History
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreward / James Peto -- Introduction and acknowledgements / Gemma Blackshaw and Leslie Topp -- Scrutinised bodies and lunatic utopias : mental illness, psychiatry and the visual arts in Vienna, 1898-1914 / Leslie Topp and Gemma Blackshaw -- Karl Henning, wax models of two male heads, 1897-98 / Nicola Imrie -- 'Mad' modernists : imagining mental illness in Viennese portraits / Gemma Blackshaw -- Gustav Jagerspacher, Portrait of Peter Altenberg, 1909 / Gemma Blackshaw -- Modernity follows madness? Viennese architecture for mental illness and nervous disorders / Nicola Imrie and Leslie Topp -- Erwin Pendl (studio), model of Lower Austrian Provincial Institution for the Cure and Care of the Mentally and Nervously Ill 'am Steinhof', c. 1907 / Leslie Topp -- Josef Karl Rädler, Untitled (self-portrait), 1913 / Luke Heighton -- The allure of nerves : class, gender and neurasthenia in Klimt's society portraits / Sabine Wieber -- Richard Luksch, two faience figures for the Purkersdorf Sanatorium, 1905 / Sabine Wieber -- Madness and literature in Vienna 1900 / Geoffrey C. Howes.
- ISBN
- 9781848220201 (hbk.)
- 1848220200 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 300404119
- SCSB-9954495
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library