Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière (The MIT Press)
Brand: The MIT Press
Color: Black
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, History & Criticism



Dimensions: 7.06 x 0.91 x 10.06 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0262541800
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780262541800
Publisher: The MIT Press
Print length: 392 pages
Publication date: September 17, 2004
subtitle: Paperback – September 17, 2004
author: Visit Amazon's Georges Didi-Huberman Page search results Georges Didi-Huberman Alisa Hartz
review: Editorial Reviews Review This poetic account of the relationship between photography and madness will interest any student of art or mental health.— Publishers Weekly Forecasts — ...a significant examination of an often blurred landscape between pain and performance. — Allan Graubard , Leonardo Reviews — Review Van Gogh and hysteria? Proust and catalepsy! Sigmund Freud and theater? Charcot's influence is suddenly registering everywhere, not only in studies of fin-de-siècle medicine and psychology, but also in aesthetics, philosophy, and photographic history. Charcot figures in reexaminations of the 'new psychologies' of the 1890s, the birth of Freudian psychology, male and female hysteria, the designs of art nouveau lamp posts, art manifestos of the Symbolists, the novels of Huysmans and Proust, the landscapes of Van Gogh and Gauguin, and the history of flash photography. No wonder. The images of his patients at the infamous Salpêtrière hospital in Paris strike a thoroughly contemporary and postmodern chord, one that is brilliantly brought to life in this remarkable book by Georges Didi-Huberman. ― Robert Sobieszek , Curator of Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art About the Author Georges Didi-Huberman, a philosopher and art historian based in Paris, teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Recipient of the 2015 Adorno Prize, he is the author of more than fifty books on the history and theory of images, including Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière (MIT Press), Bark (MIT Press), Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz , and The Surviving Image : Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art . Read more