Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Wolfli: The Life and Works of Adolf Weolfli - Rilegato

Morgenthaler, Walter

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ISBN 10: 0803231563 ISBN 13: 9780803231566

Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1992

Riassunto

Recently interest has surged in what Jean Dubuffet called Art Brut, “raw art” produced by persons operating outside cultural norms, reflecting inner need rather than any “official” artistic attitude. Of the known practitioners of Art Brut, one of the most gifted was the Swiss peasant Adolf Wölfli. From 1895, when he was thirty-one, until his death in 1930, Wölfli was incarcerated in Waldau hospital, severely afflicted with rage and depression. Supplied with colored pencils and paper by his primary physician, Walter Morgenthaler, he began to draw. Morgenthaler’s pathbreaking study of Wölfli and his art, published in 1921, aimed at the center of contemporary debates about the relationships between creativity, madness, and art. This first English-language edition includes twenty-four color reproductions of Wölfli’s art and Wölfli’s brief account of his own life.

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L'autore:

Aaron H. Esman, the translator, is a professor of clinical psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College and a member of the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

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Book by Morgenthaler Walter

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• Editore: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0803231563
• ISBN 13: 9780803231566
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 156