Journeys Into Madness
Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud's investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this 'territory' in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works produced by patients and writers were developing innovative literary techniques to convey a character's interior life. This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness of modern times. The travellers of these journey…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-85745-459-1
- EAN: 9780857454591
- Produktnummer: 22575916
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 222 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'506 KB
Über den Autor
Sabine Wieber is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Glasgow. She has published on German and Austrian design culture, German national identity and constructions of gender in Vienna circa 1900. She co-curated the exhibition Madness and Modernity: Art, Architecture and Mental Illness in Vienna 1900 (Vienna, 2010).
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