Purple Art
[02/18/2016]
An excerpt from Bjarne Melgaard’s new book “Psychopathological Notebook” now available at Karma, New York
Everyone in Paris saw it: L’art chez les fous. In droves, artists flocked to the groundbreaking International Exhibition of Psychopathological Art at the Sainte-Anne psychiatric hospital in 1950. Featuring over two thousand works by patients deemed mentally ill, this landmark event—organized on the occasion of the first International Congress of Psychiatry—marked a zenith point in […]
Photo Bjarne Melgaard
