The Art Of Insanity by Hans Prinzhorn
A Contribution to the Psychology and Psychopathology of Configuration
A landmark early twentieth-century study of artworks created by psychiatric patients, drawing on a large clinical collection to analyze form, symbolism, and creative impulse; it challenges the boundary between pathology and aesthetics, argues that authentic artistic expression can arise outside academic training, and situates patient art alongside contemporary movements, offering case analyses and illustrations that shaped later understandings of outsider art while cautioning against reductive diagnostic readings.
- Published
- 1922
- Nationality
- German
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- Unknown
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- Original Language
- German
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- Alternate Titles
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- Artistry of the Mentally Ill
- Bildnerei der Geisteskranken
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