Art, crime and madness
Gesualdo, Caravaggio, Genet, Van Gogh, Artaud
- ISBN: 9781903900062
- Editorial: Sussex Academic Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2003
- Lugar de la edición: Brighton. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 209
- Idiomas: Inglés
Art, Crime, and Madness explores the relationship between creative innovation, deviance and morbidity. To innovate one has to be able to view the medium and the object of creativity in a different, hitherto unexplored manner. The essence of art is creative innovation, coupled with an ability, in varying degrees, to transcend the boundaries of consciousness. But this #ability# is also the prerogative of the mentally deranged. Likewise, the criminal and the deviant are more likely to transcend normative barriers while creating, hence the wide range of criminal and deviant behaviour in society. Although the inverse hypothesis does not hold # the mere existence of deviance or morbidity does not predispose the individual to creativity # nevertheless criminal and mad behaviour are often very innovative.
