The Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow: a history, 1814–1989

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Michael Barfoot

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copy, complete or interpret drawings. (Both innovations reflect a new appeciation for visual communication, but their use cannot leave intact the innocence of the compulsion to draw or construct: the art of the insane may be headed for extinction.) The field of "discovery" was left clear for expressionistically-oriented psychoanalysts, and artists. MacGregor makes a good case for psychotic art's importance to the history of twentieth-century "insider" art, especially that of the German Expressionists, and the Surrealist painters (the "God-aren't-we-crazy" Dadaists get short shrift here). This is a long and rather angry book, one filled with radical, and refreshing, conclusions. Historians of institutional psychiatry, and of twentieth-century art and aesthetics will, in future, all have to address the discovery of the art of the insane.

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