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Madness and Creativity

Madness and Creativity

Paperback

General Psychology

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1956864024
ISBN13: 9781956864021
Publisher: Ipbooks
Published: Jan 15 2022
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The putative relationship between mental illness and artistic creativity is of long-standing cultural and psychological interest. The legend of the great artist as possessed dates back to antiquity and Plato's articulation of divine madness. This book recounts a series of case-studies of fourteen artists ranging from William Blake to Agnes Martin. The theme of artistic possession is explored. The adaptive incorporation of their manifest psychopathology into creating imperishable visual works that changed the course of art-history is explicated consonant with Merleau-Ponty's assertion that The truth is that this work to be done called for this life.

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