Introduction -- Preface: toward a theory of psychiatric illustration -- Icons of madness -- The appearance of madness -- The staff of madness -- The position of madness -- The treatment of madness -- The confinement of madness -- Images of madness -- The idea of bedlam -- The physiognomy of madness -- The medical illustration of madness -- The biography of madness -- The phrenology of madness -- The aesthetics of madness -- The reform of madness -- The population of the reformed asylum -- The individual in the reformed asylum -- Photography and madness -- The origins of pyschiatric photography -- Darwin's influence on seeing the insane -- The ongoing artistic tradition -- Seeing the insane at the Salpetriere -- Art and medicine in the nineteenth century -- Van Gogh sees the insane -- Epiogue: Seeing with "the third eye."
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European visual arts 1200-1900 Special subjects Insanity
European visual arts, 1200-1900. Special subjects: Insanity - Critical studies
