Portraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy by Robert Snell

Portraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy

Robert Snell

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nonfiction art health history psychology
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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...

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