Bedlam is inspired by a year in the life of Richard Dadd, a great Victorian painter and inmate of London's Bethlem Hospital. It's a poetic and considered portrait of an artist, as well as an intriguing mystery about how, and why, a mind can go so swiftly and dangerously awry.
In 1842 Dadd took a Grand Tour of Europe and the Middle East. Within a year he had become a devotee of the god Osiris, and then become a killer, acting under the assumed direction of the Egyptian divinity.
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The Other Side lit up my brain. A radical, fascinating exploration of art and the otherworldly, Higgie is an expert and erudite guide in this brilliant reclamation of female artists. * Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art Without Men * Higgie chronicles with an illuminance that welds her readers to the page -- Katie Ebbitt * The Violet Book * Elegantly expanded my thinking on the eternal mystery of where art comes from. * Sinead Gleeson * Higgie's prose is fragmentary yet lucid, and the novel evokes the inextricable beauty and terror of Dadd's sensory journey, while raising some of the philosophical questions it poses about art, language and other minds. Bedlam is a mystery story in which we search for clues as to how an individual might go from precocious talent to parricide. * TLS *
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
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978-1-83674-204-3 (9781836742043)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. Previously the editor of frieze magazine, and the presenter of Bow Down, a podcast about women in art history, she is the author and illustrator of the children's book There's Not One; the editor of The Artist's Joke and the author of The Mirror & The Palette: Rebellion, Revolution & Resistance, 500 Years of Women's Self Portraits, and The Other Side: Women, Art and the Spirit World.
