Invention of Hysteria
Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière
$87.63
- Paperback
385 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2004
Summary
The first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hysteria.In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262541800 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262541807 |
| Author: | Georges Didi-Huberman, Alisa Hartz |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 385 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 816g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 178mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Invention of Hysteria |
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“This poetic account of the relationship between photography and madness willinterest any student of art or mental health.” Publishers Weekly Forecasts
“This poetic account of the relationship between photography and madness will interest any student of art or mental health, for seldom have these fields been so definitively intertwined.” - Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Georges Didi-Huberman
Georges Didi-Huberman, a philosopher and art historian based in Paris, teaches at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales. Recipient of the 2015 Adorno Prize, he is the author of more than fifty books on the history and theory of images, including Invention of Hysteria- Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpatri re (MIT Press), Bark (MIT Press), Images in Spite of All- Four Photographs from Auschwitz, and The Surviving Image- Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms- Aby Warburg’s History of Art.
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