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Art and madness / Jose Guimon ; translated by Eoin McGirr and Mervyn Henderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guimón, J.
- Series:
- Contemporary European cultural studies.
- Contemporary European cultural studies
- Standardized Title:
- Art et psychiatrie. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology, Pathological--Miscellanea.
- Psychology, Pathological.
- Art and mental illness.
- Artists--Psychology.
- Artists.
- Creative ability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Aurora, Colo. : Davies Group, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Is there a hereditary disposition to creativity?
- The disinhibition of cortical control
- Psychological characteristics
- Creativity and drugs
- Anxiety and depersonalisation
- Psychotic experiences
- Affective disorders
- The emergence of the unconscious
- Perversion and artistic creativity
- The uncanny
- Narcissistic traumas
- Alterations of the image of the body
- Grief
- Non-conformism, dandyism and decadentism
- Avant-garde
- Postmodernism
- Obscenity and pornography
- Art as therapy.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-935790-27-7
- OCLC:
- 228139371
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