Art of Frenzy

Public Madness in the Visual Culture of Europe, 1500-1850

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-01-01
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780826456410

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"The Art of Frenzy skilfully traces the various traditions of conceptualizing and representing mania from the Greeks onwards. Kromm focuses on the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to explore the relationship between madness, art and politics. Wide-ranging, scholarly and integrating image and text with great skill, The Art of Frenzy presents a highly original and scholarly analysis of the cultural representation of madness in art and literature."--Professor Roy Porter, Welcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College