xix, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Contents
The confrontation: the artist and the madman -- The physician and the art of the patient -- Georget and Géricault: the portraits of the insane -- Jonathan Martin of Bedlam -- Insanity the context of romanticism -- Cesare Lombroso: the theory of genius and insanity -- Paul-Max Simon and the study of psychiatry and art -- Victorian bedlam: the case of Richard Dadd -- William Noyes and the case of "G" -- The Chicago conference -- Marcel Réja: critic of the art of the insane -- Hans Prinzhorn and the German contribution -- The world of Adolf Wölfli -- Expressionism and the art of the insane -- Psychoanalysis and the study of psychotic art -- Psychosis and surrealism -- Dubuffet and the aesthetic of Art Brut -- Conclusion
