Mental superpowers
By: by Jan Hoek, clients from behavioral health of Kings County Hospital and other artists in various mental states
Publisher: Art Paper Editions
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Sint-Amandsberg]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9789490800956
Subjects: Art and mental illness; People with disabilities in art; Artists with disabilities; Comic books, strips
Description: Lady GaGa, Diane Arbus, Vincent van Gogh, Kurt Cobain - the list of geniuses with mental health issues is long and well known. But how do the two relate to one another? Or, to rephrase the question, can a mental illness also be seen as a superpower? To answer this question Jan Hoek spent three months living in a psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn, collaborating with the hospital's clients and other unique individuals he met in New York. This comic book, Mental Superpowers, is the result.