Madness and modernity : mental illness and the visual arts in Vienna 1900

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Madness and modernity : mental illness and the visual arts in Vienna 1900

edited by Gemma Blackshaw & Leslie Topp

Lund Humphries, 2009

  • : hbk

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Exhibition catalogue

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London, 1 April-28 June 2009

Bibliography: p. [154]-157

Includes index

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内容説明

With its focus on a specific place and time (Vienna in 1900) and on a specific theme (madness), "Madness and Modernity" sets out to explore artistic, social and psychological themes which provide insights into the madness-modernity nexus that manifested itself in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. The book's thematic structure draws out particular examples of the connection between madness and modernity. Designs by Otto Wagner for the Steinhof mental hospital are juxtaposed with expressionist portraits, such as those by Oskar Kokoschka, of patients who were interned there.Self-portraits by Egon Schiele are shown alongside photographs of men with neurological disorders, while art works by psychiatric patients are also reproduced. Throughout, arresting visual material substantiates the links between madness and modernity which not only characterised Viennese society at this time but touched many European communities in the early twentieth century. Including over 100 images, this groundbreaking book includes a number of short chapters which focus on specific works of particular significance. Taken in parts or as a whole, "Madness and Modernity" is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand a fascinating facet of European modernism and society.

目次

  • Contents: Foreword, James Peto
  • Introduction and acknowledgements, Gemma Blackshaw and Leslie Topp
  • Scrutinised bodies and lunatic utopias: Mental illness, psychiatry and the visual arts in Vienna, 1898-1914, Gemma Blackshaw and Leslie Topp
  • object essay: Karl Henning, Wax models of two male heads, 1897-98, Nicola Imrie
  • Mad modernists: imaging mental illness in Viennese portraits, Gemma Blackshaw
  • object essay: Gustav Jagerspacher, Portrait of Peter Altenberg, 1909, Gemma Blackshaw
  • Modernity follows madness? Viennese architecture for mental illness and nervous disorders, Nicola Imrie and Leslie Topp
  • object essay: Erwin Pendl (studio), Model of Lower Austrian Provincial Institution for the Cure and Care of the Mentally and Nervously Ill 'am Steinfhof', c.1907, Leslie Topp
  • object essay: Josef Karl Radler, Untitled (Self-Portrait), 1913, Luke Heighton
  • The allure of nerves: class, gender and neurasthenia in Klimt's society portraits, Sabine Wieber
  • object essay: Richard Luksch, Two faience figures for the Purkersdorf Sanatorium, 1905, Sabine Wieber
  • Madness and literature in Vienna 1900, Geoffrey C. Howes
  • Checklist of exhibited works
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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