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Monomania : Fiona Tan / authors, Fiona Tan, Douwe Draaisma, Mayken Jonkman.
Fine Arts Library - New Book Display N6953.T36 A4 2025
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- Standardized Title:
- Monomania (Rijksmuseum)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tan, Fiona, 1966---Exhibitions.
- Tan, Fiona.
- Psychiatry in art--Exhibitions.
- Psychiatry in art.
- Mental illness in art--Exhibitions.
- Mental illness in art.
- foto's.
- installaties.
- kunst door geesteszieken.
- Local Subjects:
- foto's.
- installaties.
- kunst door geesteszieken.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs
- Physical Description:
- 111 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plan, portraits ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Fiona Tan : monomania
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Rijksmuseum, [2025]
- Summary:
- "In Monomania, artist Fiona Tan explores how the human mind has been represented: the tension between the visible and the invisible, and the desire to capture the unseen - the mind - in images. Taking Théodore Géricault's intriguing Portrait of a Kleptomaniac as her starting point, Tan traces the origins of psychiatry in the nineteenth century through the lens of a once central, now forgotten diagnosis: monomania. Personal impressions, archival research and formal analysis lead to a reflection on the interplay between art, science and representation. What was seen as 'madness' at the time? How was it depicted? And what can those images tell us today? Tan's inquiry resulted in Janine's Room (2025), a large-scale video installation in which reality and imagination gradually merge. In addition, the fascinating prints, photographs, paintings, Japanese masks and objects which she selected for the exhibition at the Rijksmuseum are reproduced here. Monomania is a compelling social and art historical portrait of the boundaries of the mind - and our enduring attempts to grasp them." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Taco Dibbits
- Prologue
- 'Very well painted, very ugly'
- Monomania
- The sufferings of Henriette, A.D. and Auguste / Douwe Draaisma
- Catalogue of emotions
- Janine's room / Fiona Tan
- An exercise in empathy : Fiona Tan's video installation Janine's room / Mayken Jonkman
- Diagnostic dilemmas
- Hearing and seeing things
- Black thoughts
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Exhibition held from 2025/07/04-2025/09/14 at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 104).
- ISBN:
- 9789462089075
- 9462089078
- OCLC:
- 1528919322
- Publisher Number:
- https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301341561 rijkspid
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