Creativity and Madness: Psychological Studies of Art and Artists

By Barry Panter

Book Overview

A psychological study of Arts and Artists This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964118513
• ISBN13: 9780964118515
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: A I M E D
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

An engaging collection of lectures on art and artists

Dr. Barry Panter, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, has put together with his fellow editors an engaging collection of transcribed lectures on art and artists. In most cases, the mental health professionals analyzing these artists (e.g., Jackson Pollock, van Gogh) take rather a reductionistic, Freudian stance on the sources of creativity. This is to me the book's drawback, along with the limitation of space--and therefore, depth--allowed each contributor. Nevertheless, there are some excellent articles here, and I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the psychology of creativity and its close connection to madness, or--to put it more clinically--psychopathology.