Madness, Art, and Society By Anna Harpin 9781138784284 (Paperback)

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Performance art

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Wordery

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Taylor & francis

Madness, Art, and Society : Routledge : 9781138784284 : 1138784281 : 24 Jan 2018 : How is madness experienced, treated, and represented? How might art think around ? and beyond ? psychiatric definitions of illness and wellbeing? Madness, Art, and Society engages with artistic practices from theatre and live art to graphic fiction, charting a multiplicity of ways of thinking critically with, rather than about, non-normative psychological experience. It is organised into two parts: ?Structures: psychiatrists, institutions, treatments', illuminates the environments, figures and primary models of psychiatric care, reconsidering their history and contemporary manifestations through case studies including David Edgar's Mary Barnes and Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. ?Experiences: realities, bodies, moods', promblematises diagnostic categories and proposes more radically open models of thinking in relation to experiences of madness, touching upon works such as Richard Kell

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