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A pioneering work in the field of Medical Humanities, first published as Creativity and disease in 1982, Creativity and illness now appears in a fresh, extended version based on the definitive Swedish edition published in 2022. A renowned surgeon, Philip Sandblom was also a connoisseur of the fine arts, and throughout his life he was fascinated by the interplay between art and health. Having started out as a student of the impact of illness and disability on the works of pictorial artists, he gradually integrated music and literature with his analyses. Some 150 artists, composers, and authors crowd the pages of this book. Most of these creative spirits are famous names, including Keats, Hölderlin, Woolf, Mahler, Mozart, Goya, Kahlo, and Klee; but Sandblom brings out aspects of their works that only a medical expert would discern. In lively style, this book demonstrates the effects of ill health on the artistic impulse, surprising the reader by pointing out that illness is not invariably detrimental to creativity. Abundantly illustrated, it combines portrayals of human suffering with celebrations of the human spirit manifested in consummate artistry.
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Keywords
- Alcoholism
- Aldous Huxley
- Antoine Watteau
- Anton Chekhov
- Antoni Tàpies
- Art as therapy
- art history
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Artistic expression
- Artistic impulse
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Béla Bartók
- Blaise Pascal
- Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
- Charles Baudelaire
- Charles Meryon
- Claude Monet
- Compensation for disability
- Composers and disease
- Congenital disabilities
- consumption
- creativity
- D. H. Lawrence
- Death in art
- Dementia
- Depression
- Drug addiction
- Epilepsy
- Esaias Tegnér
- Experience
- Flannery O’Connor
- Francisco de Goya
- Frida Kahlo
- Friedrich Hölderlin
- Gallstones
- George Bernard Shaw
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- Gustav Mahler
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
- Hjalmar Gullberg
- Hostility to medicine
- Ill health
- Ill health and disability
- illness
- Illness and literature
- Immanuel Kant
- inspiration
- Iris Murdoch
- Ivar Arosenius
- Jean Cocteau
- Job
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- John Donne
- John Keats
- John Milton
- Jonathan Swift
- Juan Gris
- Katherine Mansfield
- Lord Byron
- Loss of hearing
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Manic-depressive illness
- Marcel Proust
- Marin Marais
- medical humanities
- Ménière’s disease
- Mental illness
- Mescaline
- Michel de Montaigne
- Molière
- Music as emotional expression
- Nicolò Paganini
- Old age
- Pablo Picasso
- Paget’s disease
- Pain
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Klee
- Pierre de Ronsard
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Piet Mondrian
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Raoul Dufy
- Restoration of health
- Robert Schumann
- Sam Francis
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Pepys
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Schizophrenia
- Sociology
- Stoicism
- Surgery for bladder stones
- The Brontës
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- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGB Individual artists, art monographs
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMR Cognition and cognitive psychology
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services::MQT Occupational therapy::MQTC Creative therapy / Expressive therapies
- Thomas De Quincey
- Tourette’s syndrome
- Tuberculosis
- Virginia Woolf
- visual impairment
- W. A. Mozart
- Walter Scott
- Waning powers
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DOI: 10.7765/9789198740516Editions