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Beyond reason: art and psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Robert Chaplin  and
Josephine Richards
Robert Chaplin*
Affiliation:
Springfield Hospital, London
Josephine Richards
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, St George's Hospital, London
*
∗Correspondence
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It is unusual for an exhibition of unknown artists to open with critical acclaim and draw crowds to a major gallery. What is more remarkable is that few of the artists received formal tuition, none belonged to a movement or painted commercially and they did not expect their work to be seen by an audience. The artists were mentally ill people residing in asylums throughout Europe whose work was collected between 1918 and 1921 by the German psychiatrist and art historian Hans Prinzhorn (1886–1933).

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Psychiatry in Art
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , May 1997 , pp. 276 - 277
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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Beyond reason: art and psychosis. Works from the Prinzhorn collection (1996) Catalogue and leaflet. London: Hayward Gallery.Google Scholar
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