New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness

by Andrew Hodgson and Carl Julius Salomonsen

Over the years 1919-20, the celebrated medical scientist and doctor Carl Julius Salomonsen began giving public lectures and publishing pamphlets regarding a new "epidemic" that had begun to affect the European populace: the increasing ubiquity of modernist art. In a 1919 pamphlet titled New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness, he wrote: "We stand, at this moment, before a movement in art which is psychopathic in character, and whose...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927354315
• ISBN13: 9781927354315
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: New Documents
• Length: 96 Pages