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Art, Crime and Madness - Gesualdo, Carravagio, Genet, Van Gogh, Artaud (Hardcover)
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Art, Crime and Madness - Gesualdo, Carravagio, Genet, Van Gogh, Artaud (Hardcover)
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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. This thesis is
illustrated by historical case histories of creative deviance and
genius madness, and contemporary observations. The painter
Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio killed a man while still a teenager,
and a second victim during a ball game. In his lifetime he was
considered degenerate, but today he is considered the greatest
painter of the Italian Settecento, and his portrait adorns the
Hundred-Thousand Lira note. Jean Genet the homosexual thief was
born out of wedlock and as a teenager he transgressed almost all
the paragraphs of the French criminal code. But he became a famous
French playwright, the mouthpiece for criminals and deviants. His
plays built up a philosophical apology for the raison d'etre of the
criminal group.
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