Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy
by
Robert Snell
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
In the early 1820s, in the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) made five portraits of patients in an asylum or clinic. No depictions of madness before or since can compare with them for humanity, straightforwardness...