CiNii Books - Neurological disorders in famous artists

A Karger 'Publishing Highlights 1890-2015' title The study of how a neurological disorder can change the artistic activity and behavior of creative people is a largely unexplored field. This publication looks closer at famous painters, writers, composers and philosophers of the 18th to the 20th centuries who suffered from neurological diseases such as stroke, epilepsy, brain trauma and dementia. The diseases of Gershwin, Kant, Musorgsky, Poe, Ravel, Van Gogh and many more are diagnosed in retrospect and treatment options according to modern medical technologies are discussed. Presenting fascinating insights into the relationship between brain disease and creativity in famous minds, this publication is highly recommended to neurologists, psychiatrists, physicians as well as to everybody interested in art, music and literature.

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Preface
Guillaume Apollinaire, the Lover Assassinated: Bogousslavsky, J.
Guy de Maupassant and Friedrich Nietzsche. A Comparison of Two Cases of 19th-Century General Paresis: Hayden, D.
The One-Man Band of Pain. Alphonse Daudet and His Painful Experience of Tabes dorsalis: Dieguez, S.
Bogousslavsky, J.
Gustave Flaubert's Hidden Sickness: Jallon, P.
Jallon, H.
Edgar Allan Poe: Substance Abuse versus Epilepsy: Bazil, C.W.
Dostoevsky and Epilepsy: An Attempt to Look Through the Frame: Rossetti, A.O.
Bogousslavsky, J.
Immanuel Kant: Evolution from a Personality 'Disorder' to a Dementia: Guard, O.
Boller, F.
Valery Larbaud: Boller, F.
Alajouanine's Painter: Paul-Elie Gernez: Boller, F.
Carolus Horn - When the Images in the Brain Decay. Evidence of Backward-Development of Visual and Cognitive Functions in Alzheimer's Disease: Maurer, K.
Prvulovic, D.
Major Depression and Stroke in Caspar David Friedrich: Dahlenburg, B.
Spitzer, C.
Understanding Van Gogh's Night
Bipolar Disorder: Carota, A.
Iaria, G.
Berney, A.
Bogousslavsky, J.
The Terminal Illness and Last Compositions of Maurice Ravel: Baeck, E.
The Decay and Death of Modest Musorgsky: Baeck, E.
Georg Friedrich Handel's Strokes: Bazner, H.
Hennerici, M.
The Subcortical Vascular Encephalopathy of Joseph Haydn - Pathographic Illustration of the Syndrome: Bazner, H.
Hennerici, M.
Music and the Brain: Gershwin and Shebalin: Ruiz, E.
Montanes, P.
Robert Schumann's Focal Dystonia: Altenmuller, E.
Author Index
Subject Index.

Volume: pt. 2 ISBN 9783805582650

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'Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 2' presents more writers, philosophers, musicians, painters and film directors who developed some form of neurological dysfunction and whose style and output changed following a stroke or other cerebral disorder. Mozart, Baudelaire, de Kooning, Proust, Fussli, Heine, Fellini, Visconti and others are all striking examples of how extraordinary creativity can be challenged and modified or destroyed and restored, all within the drama of a disease. When brain disease challenges the capabilities of artists, the changes that subsequently occur in their work provide a unique opportunity to explore the mysteries of creativity. This may also lead to a better understanding on how certain artists developed, particularly when the course of a disease corresponds with what is generally recognized as a new chapter in their work. This book offers a fascinating read for neurologists, psychiatrists, general physicians and anybody interested in art, literature, music and film.

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Preface: Bogousslavsky, J.
Hennerici, M.G.
Painting after Right-Hemisphere Stroke - Case Studies of Professional Artists: Bazner, H.
Hennerici, M.G.
I and Me: Self-Portraiture in Brain Damage: Blanke, O.
Lovis Corinth: Integrating Hemineglect and Spatial Distortions: Bazner, H.
Hennerici, M.G.
Visconti and Fellini: From Left Social Neorealism to Right-Hemisphere Stroke: Dieguez, S.
Assal, G.
Bogousslavsky, J.
De novo Artistic Behaviour following Brain Injury: Pollak, T.A.
Mulvenna, C.M.
Lythgoe, M.F.
Marcel Proust's Diseases and Doctors: The Neurological Story of a Life: Bogousslavsky, J.
Heinrich Heine and Syphilis: auf der Horst, C.
Baudelaire's Aphasia: From Poetry to Cursing: Dieguez, S.
Bogousslavsky, J.
Memory and the Creation of Art: The Syndrome, as in de Kooning, of 'Creating in the Midst of Dementia'. An 'ArtScience' Study of Creation, Its 'Brain Methods' and Results: Espinel, C.H.
Persisting Aphasia, Cerebral Dominance, and Painting in the Famous Artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward: Colombo-Thuillard, F.
Assal, G.
Mozart in the Neurological Department - Who Has the Tic?: Kammer, T.
Hans von Bulow: Creativity and Neurological Disease in a Famous Pianist and Conductor: Wohrle, J.C.
Haas, F.
Synaesthesia, the Arts and Creativity: A Neurological Connection: Mulvenna, C.M.
The Hallucinating Art of Heinrich Fussli: Baumann, C.
Lentzsch, F.
Regard, M.
Bassetti, C.
Author Index
Subject Index.

Volume: pt. 3 ISBN 9783805593304

Description

The third part of 'Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists' presents painters, musicians, and writers who had to fight against an acute or chronic neurological disease. Sometimes this fight was without success (e.g. Shostakovich, Schumann, Wolf, Pascal), but often a dynamic and paradoxical creativity of the clinical disorder was integrated into their artistic production (e.g. Klee, Ramuz). Occasionally, some even wrote the first report of a medical condition they observed in themselves, like Stendhal who made a detailed report of aphasic transient ischemic attacks before dying of stroke shortly thereafter. In rarer instances, a neurological disease was inaccurately attributed to an artist in order to explain certain features of his work (de Chirico, Schiele). Some chapters in this publication focus on neurological conditions reported in artistic work, including descriptions by Shakespeare and Dumas. Bringing new light to both artists and neurological conditions, this book serves as a valuable and entertaining read for neurologists, psychiatrists, physicians, and anybody interested in arts, literature and music.

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Preface: Bogousslavsky, J.
Hennerici, M.G.
Bazner, H.
Bassetti, C.
Leonardo da Vinci and Stroke - Vegetarian Diet as a Possible Cause: Ozturk, S.
Altieri, M.
Troisi, P.
Paul Klee's Illness (Systemic Sclerosis) and Artistic Transfiguration: Suter, H.
The Last Myth of Giorgio de Chirico: Neurological Art: Bogousslavsky, J.
Egon Schiele and Dystonia: Erbguth, F.J.
Syphilis in German-Speaking Composers - 'Examination Results Are Confidential': Bazner, H
Hennerici, M.G.
Hector Berlioz and Other Famous Artists with Opium Abuse: Wolf, P.L.
Shostakovich and ALS: Kalapatapu, V.R.
Gilkey, A.P.
Pascuzzi, R.M.
Suffering for Her Art: The Chronic Pain Syndrome of Pianist Clara Wieck-Schumann: Altenmuller, E.
Kopiez, R.
Bravo! Neurology at the Opera: Matthews, B.R.
Stendhal's Aphasic Spells: The First Report of Transient Ischemic Attacks Followed by Stroke: Bogousslavsky, J.
Assal, G.
The Missing Hands of Blaise Cendrars: Tatu, L.
Visual Experiences of Blaise Pascal: Paciaroni, M.
Autism and Art: James, I.
'A Man Can Be Destroyed but Not Defeated': Ernest Hemingway's Near-Death Experience and Declining Health: Dieguez, S.
'The Adventure': Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz's Extraordinary Stroke Diary: Bogousslavsky, J.
Portrayal of Neurological Illness and Physicians in the Works of Shakespeare: Matthews, B.R.
The Neurology of Literature: Perkin, G.D.

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