Art of Insanity
Subtitle: An Analysis of Ten Schizophrenic Artists
Publisher: Solar Books
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780983248002
Subjects: Schizophrenics; Art and mental illness; Artists, psychology
Description: "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.