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Madness and Modernity. Architecture, Art and Mental Illness in Vienna and the Habsburg Empire, 1890-1914
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Photograph of a patient from Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpetriere (UCL Institute of Neurology) Photograph of a patient from Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpetriere (UCL Institute of Neurology).

Exhibition

'Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900', a major international loan exhibition curated by Gemma Blackshaw and Leslie Topp, will be at Wellcome Collection, London from 1 April to 28 June 2009. For more information please visit the Wellcome Collection website.

Read our press release.

Read the article in BBK magazine.

Gemma Blackshaw and Leslie Topp, ed., Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900 (London: Lund Humphries, 2009) has been published to accompany the exhibition. It contains contributions by all project members and by external contributors.

Exhibition Study Day

Gemma Blackshaw will be running a study day devoted to the exhibition on Saturday 16 May 2009 at Wellcome Collection, as part of Birkbeck's programme of study days in history of art. Cost £35 (£15 concessions). More information about the study day (you will need to scroll to the bottom of the page linked to).

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