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Art, crime, and madness : Gesualdo, Caravaggio, Genet, Van Gogh, Artaud / Shlomo Giora Shoham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shoham, S. Giora, 1929-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and mental illness.
- Artists--Psychology.
- Artists.
- Creative ability.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Mytho-Empiricisim 1
- 1 The Personality and its Disruption 24
- 2 Hubris, Suppression and Stigma 50
- 3 Don Carlo Gesualdo
- A Murdered Love 73
- 4 Caravaggio
- The Violent Enlightenment 94
- 5 Jean Genet
- A Criminal Manifesto 103
- 6 The Creative Villains 129
- 7 Genius and Madness 139
- 8 St. Vincent
- Absolute Authenticity 148
- 9 Antonin Artaud
- Outside of Time 181
- Giora Shoham's Published Works and His Theory of Personality 201.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [190]-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1903900050
- 1903900069
- OCLC:
- 49626487
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