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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Several of the twelve artists featured here were first identified by psychiatrists and only subsequently by main- stream artists and the larger audience. Two groundbreaking studies of art created by institutionalized mental patients- Walter Morgenthaler’s A Mental Patient as Artist: Adolf W?lfi (1921) and Hans Prinzhorn’s Artistry of the Mentally III (1922)- analyzed the mental patients’ creations in terms of not only the nature of their illness but also the insights they provided into the creative processes found in art of both the healthy and the ill. In addition each psychiatrist explored the analo- gies to the vanguard art of their time. Morgenthaler’s and Prinzhorn’s work had great influence on generations of art- ists from the German expressionists and artists associated with the Blaue Reiter to the dadaists and surrealists especially. Both the physicians and the artists were fascinated. (MP)