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Madness and Modernity. Architecture, Art and Mental Illness in Vienna and the Habsburg Empire, 1890-1914

Dr. Luke Heighton

Ph.D. Thesis

  • Luke Heighton, 'Exhibiting Madness, Art and the Asylum: The Creation and Exhibition of Images by Psychiatric Hospital Patients in Vienna, 1890-1914', Birkbeck College, University of London, 2008

Chapters

  • 'Legitimating Strangeness: Art, Labor and the Asylum in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna', in Rebecca S. Thomas, ed. Re-Envisioning Crime and Madness: Myth, Metaphor and Reality in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, 216-243.
  • 'Josef Karl Rädler, Untitled (Self-Portrait), 1913', in Blackshaw and Topp, eds, Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900, Lund Humphries, 2009, 110-117

Conference papers / presentations

  • 'Art theory, therapy and practice at the Mauer-Oehling asylum, Vienna 1908', in Illness, Madness and Criminality: 2006 Annual International Conference of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, April 2006, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

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