Expresiones de la locura: El arte de los enfermos mentales (Arte Grandes temas) (Spanish Edition)

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Author : Hans Prinzhorn
Genre : Art

Summary : El poeta Paul Éluard describió Expresiones de la locura como «el libro de imágenes más bello que ha existido». Su autor, Hans Prinzhorn, fue poeta amateur, músico, dibujante aficionado, historiador del arte, filósofo y psiquiatra. Su personalidad entusiasta se ve reflejada en el texto, que tiene su correlato en la configuración de una gran colección de obras que vienen de manicomios de todo el mundo. Desde su publicación en 1922, el volumen fascina a artistas como Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso o Salvador Dalí: algunos lo han considerado uno de los manantiales secretos de donde beben las vanguardias. Se trata, además, de uno de los primeros textos en realizar un análisis artístico de piezas realizadas por «locos», y resulta fundamental para la posterior configuración de categorías como el «art brut» o el «outsider art». Entre sus páginas aparecen relatos de personas que pintan sobre papel higiénico o esculpen con miga de pan. El libro es también la historia de la irrefrenable necesidad creadora del ser humano, a pesar de todo, y en las circunstancias más adversas.

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Author : Salvador Dali
Genre : Art

Summary : Provides the artist's opinionated attack on both modern art and its practitioners, including Dalâi's evaluations of Picasso, Turner, and Câezanne.

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Author : Walter Morgenthaler
Genre : Art

Summary : Recently interest has surged in what Jean Dubuffet called Art Brut, “raw art” produced by persons operating outside cultural norms, reflecting inner need rather than any “official” artistic attitude. Of the known practitioners of Art Brut, one of the most gifted was the Swiss peasant Adolf Wölfli. From 1895, when he was thirty-one, until his death in 1930, Wölfli was incarcerated in Waldau hospital, severely afflicted with rage and depression. Supplied with colored pencils and paper by his primary physician, Walter Morgenthaler, he began to draw. Morgenthaler’s pathbreaking study of Wölfli and his art, published in 1921, aimed at the center of contemporary debates about the relationships between creativity, madness, and art. This first English-language edition includes twenty-four color reproductions of Wölfli’s art and Wölfli’s brief account of his own life.

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Author : Rafael Huertas
Genre : Psychology

Summary : Ninguna enfermedad existe hasta que no se percibe, se nombra y se define. La locura, la transgresión por excelencia, no es una excepción. A lo largo de la historia siempre se ha explicado en función de las creencias, las normas y las ideas dominantes en cada tipo de sociedad; es decir, es la colectividad la que fabrica su significado, la que determina qué conductas son “cuerdas” y cuáles no. Se crea así un proceso con unas dinámicas que, sobrepasando los límites de la medicina, llegan a impregnar los mitos, la filosofía, la religión o el arte. Partiendo de esta concepción de la locura como una construcción socio-cultural, en este libro se describe el origen de muchos de los estigmas que continúan alimentando nuestro imaginario sobre los trastornos mentales. Un recorrido que explora los vínculos que se han establecido entre la locura y la genialidad, la maldad, la sexualidad o la pobreza, para ofrecer una visión de las distintas maneras de comprenderla, y de actuar sobre ella, a través de los siglos. Pero entender qué significa la locura exige una visión amplia que, además, tenga en cuenta el componente eminentemente humano de semejante experiencia, por lo que esta obra es una llamada de atención sobre la necesidad de modular nuestra propia actitud hacia las personas con un diagnóstico psiquiátrico y de superar el estigma que conlleva.

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Author : David J Schwartz
Genre : Self-Help

Summary : More than 6 million readers around the world have improved their lives by reading The Magic of Thinking Big. First published in 1959, David J Schwartz's classic teachings are as powerful today as they were then. Practical, empowering and hugely engaging, this book will not only inspire you, it will give you the tools to change your life for the better - starting from now. His step-by-step approach will show you how to: - Defeat disbelief and the negative power it creates - Make your mind produce positive thoughts - Plan a concrete success-building programme - Do more and do it better by turning on your creative power - Capitalise on the power of NOW Updated for the 21st century, this is your go-to guide to a better life, starting with the way you think.

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Author : Michel Foucault
Genre : History

Summary : Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.

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Author : Otto Julius Bierbaum
Genre : Fiction

Summary : In an isolated castle on the outskirts of a city in the Albanian mountains, the wildly ugly painter of blasphemies, Samalio Pardulus, executes works too monstrous to bear viewing, and espouses a philosophy that posits a grotesque world which reflects the ravings of a dead, grotesque god. Told through the horrified account of Messer Giacomo (a mediocre artist at once repulsed and fascinated by the events unfolding around him), Samalio Pardulus describes the simultaneous descent and ascent of the titular antihero into a passionate perversion of Catholicism in which love and madness become one, as a dark, incestuous incubus settles into a doomed family. When it was first published in 1908, Otto Julius Bierbaum's gothic novella--the first of his Sonderbare Geschichten ("Weird Stories")--offered a Gnostic stepping-stone between German Romanticism and the nascent Expressionism that had not yet taken root. It presents the grotesque not just as a way of life, but as a godly path to a higher vision, even when it appears to be but a manifestation of evil. This first English edition includes the full set of illustrations by Alfred Kubin from the book's 1911 German edition. Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865-1910) was a German novelist, poet, journalist and editor. His 1897 novel Stilpe inspired the first cabaret venue in Berlin a few years later; his last novel, the 1909 Yankeedoodlefahrt, produced a German proverb still in use today: "Humor is when you laugh anyway."