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Extraordinary! / Extraordinaire!: Unknown Works from Swiss Psychiatric Institutions Around 1900 / Unbekannite Werke aus Psychiatrischen Einrichtungen in der Schweiz um 1900 - Rilegato

 
9783858816047: Extraordinary! / Extraordinaire!: Unknown Works from Swiss Psychiatric Institutions Around 1900 / Unbekannite Werke aus Psychiatrischen Einrichtungen in der Schweiz um 1900
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ISBN 10: 3858816043 ISBN 13: 9783858816047
Casa editrice: Scheidegger Und Spiess Ag Verlag, 2018

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There has been a rapid rise in interest in recent years in art created by people suffering from mental illness, with new museums dedicated to it, major surveys, and attention from the media and public. Yet there has been little research undertaken to systematically examine this body of art. 
          
Extraordinary! presents the results of an exceptional research project undertaken at the Zurich University of the Arts that documented and examined art produced in asylums and mental hospitals throughout Switzerland around 1900. Varied in style and media, the works often mark long periods of dedicated and passionate work and reveal remarkable technical and artistic prowess. They serve, the editors show, as both an expression of their creators&; ideas and an act of compensation for&;and a criticism of&;the dull and often hard life at the institutions they trod.

Featuring a diverse selection of previously unpublished works, Extraordinary! questions our contemporary understanding of art, encouraging the reader to engage with these artists and their work and thereby revisit the very idea of what constitutes art.
 

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Informazioni sull'autore

Helen Hirsch is director of Kunstmuseum Thun in Switzerland. Before studying art history and management, she worked as a registered nurse in mental hospitals. Katrin Luchsinger is professor in the Department of Cultural Analysis at the Zurich University of the Arts. Thomas Röske is director of the Prinzhorn Collection at Heidelberg University Hospital.

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Editore
Scheidegger Und Spiess Ag Verlag
Data di pubblicazione
2018
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
3858816043
ISBN 13 
9783858816047
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
320
Redattore
Hirsch Helen, Luchsinger Katrin, Röske Thomas
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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