David Canter and Donna Youngs
Ashgate
Paperback
274
2008
The book plots the nexus between the study of mental illness and the modernist ideals of groups such as the Seccessionts (including Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Otto Wagner). Designs by Wagner for the Steinhof mental hospital are juxtaposed with portraits by Oskar Kokoschka of patients interned there, self-portraits by Egon Schiele are shown alongside photographs of neurological disorder, art works by patients are explored in the context of the spaces they inhabited and the treatments they received. Over 100 arresting images give voice to these dialogues that existed between psychiatrists, writers, visual art practitioners and patients.
Ashgate
Paperback
274
2008
The book plots the nexus between the study of mental illness and the modernist ideals of groups such as the Seccessionts (including Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Otto Wagner). Designs by Wagner for the Steinhof mental hospital are juxtaposed with portraits by Oskar Kokoschka of patients interned there, self-portraits by Egon Schiele are shown alongside photographs of neurological disorder, art works by patients are explored in the context of the spaces they inhabited and the treatments they received. Over 100 arresting images give voice to these dialogues that existed between psychiatrists, writers, visual art practitioners and patients.