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Ida Applebroog: Mercy Hospital

Ida Applebroog: Mercy Hospital

Applebroog, Ida

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ISBN10: 1942607598
ISBN13: 9781942607595
Publisher: Karma New York
Published: Jan 24 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 3.30
Height: 1.20 Width: 8.70 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
In 2009 Ida Applebroog's (born 1929) assistants found a box marked Mercy Hospital. Inside was a series of drawings the artist made nearly 50 years ago, during a period of institutionalization after suffering a debilitating breakdown in San Diego in 1969. During this tumultuous period, Applebroog, by her own account, withdrew from the world entirely, for a period hardly able to speak at all. Instead she turned to drawing, producing works in graphite, India ink and watercolors, at times accompanied by text from authors such as Kafka and Freud.

The drawings oscillate between the figurative and the abstract, laying bare the female form and calling to mind art-historical precedents informed by psychopathology, particularly works produced in early and mid-20th-century France by the likes of Wols.

The publication of Mercy Hospital, with a text by Jo Applin, is the first time that Applebroog's work from this period has been documented in full.

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