The Psychiatric Sublime
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Tromans, Nicholas
Date published
2010
Abstract
This paper examines images relating to therapies for mental illness in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Seeking to trace the history of the sublime aesthetic in the visual culture of medicine as well as in the fine arts, I suggest that clear traces of the literary and visual rhetoric of the sublime can be identified in the literature on lunacy and later professionalised discourses of psychiatry.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
13
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright