Fiona Tan: Monomania

Tan places works by G ricault, Goya, Ensor, Messerschmidt and more in dialogue with her own multimedia installation to explore past and present depictions of mental illness

Published with Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Multimedia artist Fiona Tan (born 1966) takes Th odore G ricault's Portrait of a Kleptomaniac as the starting point in her quest to understand 19th-century psychiatry. This work, and other contemporary depictions of monomania and mental illness, becomes a part of Tan's new video installation, Janine's Room.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462089078
• ISBN13: 9789462089075
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 8.6"