Beyond reason  -  Bettina Brand-Claussen

art and psychosis : works from the Prinzhorn Collection

KORTE INHOUD

In the early 1920s the German art historian and psychiatrist, Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933), amassed a remarkable collection of some 5,000 paintings, drawings, objects, and collages made by patients in European psychiatric institutions. His interest, unique at the time, was twofold: to assess the art as creative work, and to use it as a way of studying mental illness. Prinzhorn's Collection attracted the attention of many artists, including Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer, but by the 1930s, when the Nazis declar...
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1996 Uitgever: Hayward Gallery 195 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0520217403 ISBN-13: 9780520217409