| Description |
208 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 29 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-206) and index. |
| Contents |
Fairytopia -- Orientalist and assassin -- Inside -- Contradiction -- Pleasure men: Dadd at Broadmoor -- The asylum speaks back. |
| Summary |
The most brilliant young artist of his generation, Richard Dadd (1817-1886) made his name with a sequence of minutely executed fairy paintings of huge imaginative power. Following a long tour of the Middle East in the early 1840s he succumbed to a psychotic illness, murdered his father, and fled to France where he attacked another traveller, was apprehended by police and confessed to his crime. After his return to England he spent over forty years in Britain's most famous lunatic asylums, never ceasing to work as an artist. Tromans traces the critical response to Dadd's work, both during his lifetime and after his death. |
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Dadd, Richard, 1817-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Artists with mental disabilities -- England -- Biography.
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Art and mental illness.
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Dadd, Richard, 1817-1886. |
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Art. (DNLM)D001154 |
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Mentally Ill Persons -- psychology. (DNLM)D028642Q000523 |
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Institutionalization. (DNLM)D007326 |
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Dadd, Richard, 1817-1886. (OCoLC)fst00014244
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Art and mental illness. (OCoLC)fst00815407
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Artists with mental disabilities. (OCoLC)fst00817657
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (DNLM)D019215 |
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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| ISBN |
9781854379597 |
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1854379593 |
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