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Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum

Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum

Dadd, Richard
Tromans, Nicholas

Hardcover

ArtistsFolk & Outsider ArtIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 1935202685
ISBN13: 9781935202684
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Published: Aug 31 2011
Pages: 208
Weight: 2.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.70 Depth: 11.30
Language: English

The public appetite for Dadd's bewitching art has never been greater, and this long-overdue reassessment -- published in association with the Tate, London, and featuring 100 color plates -- provides a vivid account of one of the most fascinating artists of the Victorian era.

Interpretations of Dadd's art have been coloured by Romantic notions of creativity and madness, by enthusiasm for Outsider Art, and by the ideas of Michel Foucault and the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In the first full account of Dadd's life and career, the author examines Dadd's artistic legacy and uses his case to investigate the encounter between art and the treatment of mental illness in the nineteenth century. In the enclosed world of the asylum, Dadd's doctors were both his custodians and his patrons, while the legends of modern medicine became part of the larger mythological systems that informed the artist's work.

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