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Extraordinaire! - Unbekannte Werke aus psychiatrischen Einrichtungen in der Schweiz um 1900

German, English · Hardback

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There has been a rapid rise in interest in recent years in art created by people suffering from mental illness, with new museums dedicated to it, major surveys, and attention from the media and public. Yet there has been little research undertaken to systematically examine this body of art.
Extraordinary! presents the results of an exceptional research project undertaken at the Zurich University of the Arts that documented and examined art produced in asylums and mental hospitals throughout Switzerland around 1900. Varied in style and media, the works often mark long periods of dedicated and passionate work and reveal remarkable technical and artistic prowess. They serve, the editors show, as both an expression of their creators' ideas and an act of compensation for, and their own ciriticism of, the dull and often hard life at the institutions they treaded.
Featuring a diverse selection of previously unpublished works, Extraordinary! questions our contemporary understanding of art, encouraging the reader to engage with these artists and their work and thereby revisit the very idea of what constitutes art.
The book is published to coincide with exhibitions at Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg (Germany, autumn 2018), Kunstmuseum Thun (Switzerland, spring 2019), and LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz (Austria, summer 2019).

About the author

Katrin Luchsinger
ist Kunsthistorikerin und lehrt und forscht an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK zum Wechselverhältnis von Kunst, Psychologie und Psychiatrie um 1900 und zur frühen Moderne.

Helen Hirsch
ist diplomierte Psychiatriekrankenschwester und Kunsthistorikerin und seit 2007 Direktorin des Kunstmuseums Thun.

Thomas Röske
ist Kunsthistoriker und seit 2002 Leiter der Sammlung Prinzhorn am Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg.

Summary

A little known, idiosyncratic early modernism in Swiss visual art

Product details

Authors Helen Hirsch, An Lehninger, Katrin Luchsinger
Assisted by Helen Hirsch (Editor), Katrin Luchsinger (Editor), Thomas Röske (Editor)
Publisher Scheidegger & Spiess
 
Languages German, English
Product format Hardback
Released 13.10.2018
 
EAN 9783858816047
ISBN 978-3-85881-604-7
No. of pages 320
Dimensions 170 mm x 245 mm x 27 mm
Weight 954 g
Illustrations 82 farbige und 74 s/w-Abbildungen
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts

Kunst, Verstehen, Zeichnung, Art Brut, Schweiz, Swissness, Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein, Malerei und Gemälde, Ausstellungskataloge, Museumskataloge und Sammlungen, Andere grafische Kunst, Zeichnung, Kunsthandwerk, bildende Kunst, Andere grafische oder visuelle Kunstformen, Psychiatriepatienten, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Kunstmuseum Thun, Sammlung Prinzhorn

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