| Description |
207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Carl Nordenfalk -- Preface / Freddy Homburger -- Relationship between illness and creativity -- Salient features of creative personality -- Artificial stimulation of creativity -- Neuroses and psychosomatic disorders -- Mental diseases -- Congenital malformations -- Old age, debility and death -- Defects of sight and hearing -- Agonizing pain -- Digression: artists' opinions of medicine and doctors -- Tuberculosis -- Miscellaneous physical illnesses |
| Summary |
In his ground-breaking study on the life and work of some of our greatest artists, Dr Philip Sandblom explores the intriguing connections between illness, art and creativity. It deals with specific ailments - tuberculosis, sensory defects, congenital malformations and many others - and inquiries into the ways in which they inform and influence the creative personality. Dr Sandblom also goes on to discuss the effects of mental illness, drug addiction and severe pain. Many outstanding talents are discussed in this enlarged and revised edition - among them, the authors Byron, Walter Scott, Dostoyevsky, Holderlin and William Styron, the artists Goya, Klee, Matisse and Monet and the composers Mozart, Robert Schumann and Beethoven. Dr Sandblom illustrates his arguments with scores and manuscripts as well as nearly 100 paintings and drawings (over 80 in black and white, with 12 colour plates) |
| Notes |
Reprint. Originally published: 5th ed., rev. Philadelphia : Lippincott Co., 1989 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Medicine and the humanities.
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Sick -- Psychology.
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Creative ability.
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Medicine in the Arts.
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Medicine in Literature.
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Disease.
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Creativity.
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Sick Role.
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| LC no. |
91020217 |
| ISBN |
0714529419 paperback |
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0714529400 |
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