The Art of Frenzy
Public Madness in the Visual Culture of Europe, 1500-1850
Seiten
2003
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-8264-5641-0 (ISBN)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-8264-5641-0 (ISBN)
Frenzy - the most flagrant and political form of madness - is the madness of warrior-heroes, kings, scolds, and the possessed. Integrating art history with cultural studies, political history, and the history of medicine, this study examines its representation and interpretation in art.
Frenzy - the most flagrant and political form of madness - is the madness of warrior-heroes, kings, scolds, and the possessed. Integrating art history with cultural studies, political history, and the history of medicine, this study draws on a wide range of mediums and contexts - asylum sculpture, political broadsheets, medical texts, the imagery of revolution, caricature and medical illustrations. Understood as abusive power and belligerence out of control, and described in terms drawn equally from definitions of tyranny and liberty, frenzy was always articulated with a significant degree of political meaning. This work aims to clarify the importance of this interpretative pattern.
Frenzy - the most flagrant and political form of madness - is the madness of warrior-heroes, kings, scolds, and the possessed. Integrating art history with cultural studies, political history, and the history of medicine, this study draws on a wide range of mediums and contexts - asylum sculpture, political broadsheets, medical texts, the imagery of revolution, caricature and medical illustrations. Understood as abusive power and belligerence out of control, and described in terms drawn equally from definitions of tyranny and liberty, frenzy was always articulated with a significant degree of political meaning. This work aims to clarify the importance of this interpretative pattern.
Jane Kromm is Associate Professor of Art History at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is the author of numerous articles on the representation of madness.
Mania in the classical tradition - a madness of warrior-heroes and tyrants; the unmaking of heroic mania; the politics of mania; mania, riot and revolution; the measure of mania; mania and hysteria.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.2003 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 600 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8264-5641-3 / 0826456413 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8264-5641-0 / 9780826456410 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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