Author: Théodore GéricaultPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Theodore Gericault (1791-1824)
Author: Théodore GéricaultThe Work of Theodore Gericault (1791-1824).
Author: Lorenz Edwin Alfred EitnerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The Work of Theodore Gericault (1791-1824)
Author: Lorenz EitnerPortraits of the Insane
Author: Robert SnellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429917406
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In the early 1820s, in the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) made five portraits of patients in an asylum or clinic. No depictions of madness before or since can compare with them for humanity, straightforwardness and immediacy. The portraits challenge us to find responses in ourselves to the face and the embodied mysteries of the other person, and to our own internal (unsconscious, disavowed) otherness: in this sense, Gericault was a "painter-analyst". The challenge could not be more urgent, in our world of suspicion of the stranger, and of the medicalisation of madness. The book sketches the history of this last process, from the Enlightenment through to the Revolution and its public health policies, to the birth of the asylum in its interface with the penal system. But there was also a new medico-philosophical conviction that the mad were never wholly mad, and their suffering and disturbance might best be addressed through relationship and speech.
Theodore Gericault (1791-1824)
Author: Lorenz EitnerTheodore Gericault (1791-1824)
Author: Gericault, 1791-1824
Author: Lorenz EitnerPublisher: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Theodore Gericault: 1791-1824
Author: Gericault
Author: Théodore GéricaultPublisher:
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Category : Art, French
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Author: LORENZ E. A. EITNER