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Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum Book

Written and signed by Watts Gallery Curator, Nicholas Tromans, this beautiful book offers a full account of the art and life of Richard Dadd (1817-1886), one of the Victorian period's greatest artists. As a brilliant young painter, Dadd made his reputation with pictures illustrating Shakespearean fairy subjects. But following a tour around the Middle East, Dadd began to suffer from a mental illnesss which drove him to kill his father. Dadd spent over forty years in psychiatric hospitals - Bethlem and then Broadmoor - but he remained an artist, creating minutely detailed pictures of enormous power and imagination. The book illustrates all of Dadd's major works, along with a wealth of new research including transcriptions of all of Dadd's hospital casenotes and the account written by the artist of his most famous painting, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke.Books are signed by Nicholas Tromans.Read More

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    The brilliant young artist of his generation Richard Dadd (1817-1886) made his name with a sequence of minutely executed fairy paintings of huge imaginative power. This illustrated account of Dadd's life and career examines his artistic legacy and uses as a case history to investigate the relationship between art and treatment of mental illness.

  • 1854379593
  • 9781854379597
  • Nicholas Tromans
  • 15 July 2011
  • Tate Publishing
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 208
  • First Edition
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