John M. MacGregor: The Discovery of the Art of the Insane (1989)

“This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major figures in the art world discovered the extraordinary power of visual statements by psychotic artists such as Adolf Wölfli and Richard Dadd. John MacGregor draws on his dual training in art history and in psychiatry and psychoanalysis to describe not only this evolution in attitudes but also the significant influence of the art of the mentally ill on the development of modern art as a whole. His detailed narrative, with its strangely beautiful illustrations, introduces us to a fascinating group of people that includes the psychotic artists, both trained and untrained, and the psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, critics, and art historians who encountered their work.”

Publisher Princeton University Press, 1989
ISBN 0691040710, 9780691040714
xix+390 pages
via mutewar

Reviews: Aaron H. Esman (Hist Behavioral Sciences), Ellen Handler Spitz (Art Bulletin), Aaron H. Esman (JAPA).

WorldCat

PDF (24 MB)

See also Hans Prinzhorn’s Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1922–).

After Us: Art—Science—Politics, 2 (2016)

“Through essays, pictorials and fiction, After Us hopes to look beyond the horizon, exploring developments in science and technology, new forms and expressions in art, and alternative political thinking. In print and online.”

Contents: Essays by Claire Colebrook on man and the apocalypse, Jennifer Boyd on explosions and their motifs, Peter Wessel Zapffe on the tragedy of intellect. Interview with Patrik Schumacher by Martti Kalliala. Fiction by Amy Ireland. Art by Daniela Yohannes, Laurel Halo, Mari Matsutoya & LaTurbo Avedon. Graphic fiction by Lando. Illustrations by Dave Gaskarth, Rich Foster, Patrick Savile and featuring the work of Alice Channer, Quayola, Zaha Hadid.

Publisher Optigram, London, Sep 2016
40 pages

HTML (use menu to browse contents)
PDF (10 MB, added on 2017-3-4)

See also Issue 1.

Helen Pritchard, Eric Snodgrass, Magda Tyźlik-Carver (eds.): Executing Practices (2017–)

“This collection brings together artists, curators, programmers, theorists and heavy internet browsers whose practices make critical intervention into the broad concept of execution. It draws attention to their political strategies, asking: who and what is involved with those practices, and for whom or what are these practices performed, and how? From the contestable politics of emoji modifier mechanisms and micro-temporalities of computational processes to genomic exploitation and the curating of digital content, the chapters account for gendered, racialised, spatial, violent, erotic, artistic and other embedded forms of execution. Together they highlight a range of ways in which execution emerges and how it participates within networked forms of liveliness.”

Contributors: Roel Roscam Abbing, Geoff Cox, Olle Esvik, Jennifer Gabrys, Franciso Gallardo, David Gauthier, Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter, Brian House, Yuk Hui, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Peggy Pierrot, Andy Prior, Helen Pritchard, Audrey Samson, Kasper Hedegård Shiølin, Susan Schuppli, Femke Snelting, Eric Snodgrass, Winnie Soon, Magda Tyżlik-Carver.

Publisher Autonomedia, New York, 2017
Data Browser series, 6
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 Unported License
ISBN 9781570273216
279 pages

New version
Publisher Open Humanities Press, Nov 2018
Data Browser series, 6
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 Unported License
ISBN 9781785420566
310 pages

Review: Monika Szűcsová (Computational Culture, 2021).

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PDF, PDF (2018, 12 MB, added on 2018-11-28)
EPUB, EPUB (2018, 21 MB, added on 2018-11-28)