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The art of insanity : an analysis of ten schizophrenic artists / Hans Prinzhorn ; [edited by Candice Black].

Title
The art of insanity : an analysis of ten schizophrenic artists / Hans Prinzhorn ; [edited by Candice Black].
Author
Prinzhorn, Hans, 1886-1933
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : Solar Books, 2011.

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Additional Authors
Black, Candice
Description
159 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"In 1922 Hans Prinzhorn published his first and most influential book, Bildnerei der Geisteskranken ... a study of ten psychotic artists ... Art of insanity collects these ten case histories, along with over 90 original illustrations, and presents them in a new edition designed to focus on Prinzhorn's unique, anthropological synthesis of psychoanalysis and art theory"--Back cover.
Series Statement
Solar research archive.
Uniform Title
  • Bildnerei der Geisteskranken. English. Selections
  • Solar research archive.
Alternative Title
  • Bildnerei der Geisteskranken.
  • Analysis of ten schizophrenic artists
Subject
  • Art and mental illness
  • Schizophrenia and the arts
  • Schizophrenia
  • Art et maladies mentales
  • Schizophrénie
  • Health and Fitness
  • Art > Psychology
  • Art > Schizophrenia
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Karl Brendel -- August Klotz -- Peter Moog -- August Neter -- Johann Knüpfer -- Viktor Orth -- Hermann Beil -- Heinrich Welz -- Joseph Sell -- Franz Pohl -- Chronology.
ISBN
  • 9780983248002
  • 0983248001
OCLC
  • 714726284
  • SCSB-10472889
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library