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

Dr. Sabine Wieber

Articles

  • 'Nervous Bodies and Femmes Fragiles: Sculpting the Sanatorium in Vienna 1900' – forthcoming
  • Leslie Topp and Sabine Wieber, 'Architecture, Psychiatry and the Rural Idyll: The Agricultural Colony at Kierling-Gugging', planned article (expanded version of chapter)

Books

  • Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber, eds., Journeys into Madness – planned volume of essays

Chapters

  • Leslie Topp and Sabine Wieber, 'Architecture, Psychiatry and the Rural Idyll: The Agricultural Colony at Kierling-Gugging', in E. Gabriel and M. Gamper, eds., Psychiatrische Institutionen in Österreich um 1900. Vienna: Verlagshaus der Ärzte, 2009, 107-118
  • 'The Allure of Nerves: Class, gender and neurasthenia in Klimt's society portraits' in Blackshaw and Topp, eds, Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900, Lund Humphries, 2009, 118-135.
  • 'Richard Luksch, Two Faience Figures for the Purkersdorf Sanatorium, 1905' in Blackshaw and Topp, eds, Madness and Modernity, 136-143.

Conference papers/presentations

  • 'Architecture, Psychiatry and the Rural Idyll: The Agricultural Colony at Kierling-Gugging' (with Leslie Topp), Psychiatrische - und ähnliche - Institutionen um 1900. Konzepte, Realisierungen, Praxis, workshop hosted by the Institute for the History of Medicine, Vienna, October 2007; paper also delivered at Journeys into Madness: Representations of Mental Illness in the Arts and Sciences, 1850-1930, London, Wellcome Collection, October 2007
  • organised, with Gemma Blackshaw, the conference 'Journeys into Madness: Representing Mental Illness in the Arts and Sciences, 1850-1930,' funded by the Wellcome Trust, the British Academy and the University of Plymouth, Wellcome Collection, London, October 2007
  • 'The Viennese Femme Fragile,’ Public Lecture, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth, October 2007
  • 'Nervous Bodies and Susceptible Minds: Richard Luksch's Sculptural Program for the Purkersdorf Sanatorium', Research Seminar, Birkbeck College, September 2006
  • 'Beyond Boundaries: Mental Illness as an Avant-Garde Stragegy in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna', Affiliations: Groups and Movements in Austrian Literature, Postgraduate Workshop in Austrian Literature hosted by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London, June 2006
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