Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 3

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The third part of Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists presents painters, musicians, and writers who had to fight against an acute or chronic neurological disease. Sometimes this fight was without success (e.g. Shostakovich, Schumann, Wolf, Pascal), but often a dynamic and paradoxical creativity of the clinical disorder was integrated into their artistic production (e.g. Klee, Ramuz). Occasionally, some even wrote the first report of a medical condition they observed in themselves, like Stendhal who made a detailed report of aphasic transient ischemic attacks before dying of stroke shortly thereafter. In rarer instances, a neurological disease was inaccurately attributed to an artist in order to explain certain features of his work (de Chirico, Schiele). Some chapters in this publication focus on neurological conditions reported in artistic work, including descriptions by Shakespeare and Dumas. Bringing new light to both artists and neurological conditions, this book serves as a valuable and entertaining read for neurologists, psychiatrists, physicians, and anybody interested in arts, literature and music.

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• Publié par: S. Karger AG
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9783805593311
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists — Part 3
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Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Vol. 27
Series Editor
J. Bogousslavsky    Montreux
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Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 3
Volume Editors
J. Bogousslavsky Montreux
M. G. Hennerici Mannheim
H. Bäzner Stuttgart
C. Bassetti Lugano
62 figures, 19 in color, and 8 tables, 2010
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Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Vols. 1-18 were published as Monographs in Clinical Neuroscience
Julien Bogousslavsky, MD Center for Brain and Nervous System Disorders, and Neurorehabilitation Services Genolier Swiss Medical Network Clinique Valmont CH-1823 Glion/Montreux (Switzerland)
Michael G. Hennerici, MD Department of Neurology University of Heidelberg Universitätsmedizin Mannheim UMM Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3 10117 Berlin (Germany) DE-68167 Mannheim (Germany)
Hansjörg Bäzner, MD Department of Neurology Klinikum Stuttgart, Bürgerhospital Tunzhofer Strasse 14-16 DE-70191 Stuttgart (Germany)
Claudio Bassetti, MD Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland Department of Neurology Ospedale Civico Via Tesserete 46 CH-6903 Lugano (Switzerland)
(As requested by the Library of Congress, CIP data for Part 1 (vol. 19) are printed).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Neurological disorders in famous artists / volume editors, J. Bogousslavsky, F. Boiler.
p. ; cm. - (Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience ; v. 19)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 3-8055-7914-4 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Nervous system-Diseases. 2. Artists-Diseases [DNLM: 1. Famous Persons-Case Reports. 2. Nervous System Diseases-Case Reports.] I. Bogousslavsky, Julien. II. Boiler, François. III. Series.
RC359.N46 2005
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Contents
Preface
Leonardo da Vinci and Stroke - Vegetarian Diet as a Possible Cause
öztürk, Ş. (Ankara); Altieri, M.; Troisi, P. (Rome)
Paul Klee’s Illness (Systemic Sclerosis) and Artistic Transfiguration
Suter, H. (Fahrni)
The Last Myth of Giorgio de Chirico: Neurological Art
Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux)
Egon Schiele and Dystonia
Erbguth, F.J. (Nuremberg)
Syphilis in German-Speaking Composers -‘Examination Results Are Confidential’
Bäzner, H. (Mannheim/Stuttgart); Hennerici, M.G. (Mannheim)
Hector Berlioz and Other Famous Artists with Opium Abuse
Wolf, P.L. (San Diego, Calif.)
Shostakovich and ALS
Kalapatapu, V.R.; Gilkey, A.P.; Pascuzzi, R.M. (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Suffering for Her Art: The Chronic Pain Syndrome of Pianist Clara Wieck-Schumann
Altenmüller, E.; Kopiez, R. (Hannover)
Bravo! Neurology at the Opera
Matthews, B.R. (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Stendhal’s Aphasic Spells: The First Report of Transient Ischemic Attacks Followed by Stroke
Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux); Assal, G. (Lausanne)
The Missing Hands of Blaise Cendrars
Tatu, L. (Besançon)
Visual Experiences of Blaise Pascal
Paciaroni, M. (Perugia)
Autism and Art
James, I. (Oxford)
‘A Man Can Be Destroyed but Not Defeated’: Ernest Hemingway’s Near-Death Experience and Declining Health
Dieguez, S. (Lausanne)
‘The Adventure’: Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz’s Extraordinary Stroke Diary
Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux)
Portrayal of Neurological Illness and Physicians in the Works of Shakespeare
Matthews, B.R. (Indianapolis, Ind.)
The Neurology of Literature
Perkin, G.D. (London)
Author Index
Subject Index
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Preface
This is the third volume of ‘Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists’, a ‘series’ we initiated in 2005 highlighting the relationship between neurological disease and creativity in famous painters, writers, poets, philosophers, and musicians. The first trigger was the important observation that the biographic reports of Guillaume Apollinaire available at that time failed to match the actual changes in his personality and activity after World War I, mainly because of unwarranted psychological interpretations in a man who in fact suffered from a traumatic brain lesion, with subsequent paralysis, epilepsy, and associated emotional behaviors. Following this landmark several examples of dramatic modifications in artistic output after stroke, brain tumor or other neurological diseases were identified in poets such as Guy de Maupassant, painters like Caspar David Friedrich and Anton Räderscheidt, or composers including George Gershwin, Joseph Haydn or Maurice Ravel, which we addressed in the preceding volumes. On the other hand, we also emphasized that neurological diseases can sometimes be the start of artistic renewal, as was the case in Willem de Kooning (dementia), Carl Fredrik Reuterswärdt or Lovis Corinth (stroke). In this third volume, we present a series of painters, musicians and writers who also had to fight against an acute or chronic neurological disease, sometimes without success (e.g. Shostakovich, Schumann, Wolf, and Pascal), but often with a dynamic and paradoxically creative integration of the clinical disorder into their artistic production (e.g. Klee and Ramuz). The case of Blaise Cendrars is particularly striking; he lost his right writing hand during the war in 1915 and developed phantom pain which considerably influenced his subsequent work, written with the left hand. Forty years later he lost the use of his left hand after a stroke; he partly recovered, but was finally paralyzed after stroke recurrence. Writers may also occasionally write the first report of a medical condition that they observed in themselves. This was the case for Stendhal who made the first detailed report of aphasic transient ischemic attacks, before he died of a stroke shortly thereafter. In other, fortunately rarer instances, a neurological disease has been inaccurately attributed to an artist in order to explain certain features of his work, the best example being de Chirico whose paintings supposedly were influenced by migraine or epilepsy from which he is unlikely to have suffered. Egon Schiele’s depiction of his body in self-portraits rather displayed emotions and psychic conflicts in dystonia-like poses he knew from photographs of hysterical patients, but he did not himself suffer from the disease. Similarly in this volume some chapters focus on neurological conditions reported in artistic work. We already know about hemiplegia or chorea in Egyptian frescoes, and of the Babinski sign in baby Jesus’ foot being kissed in medieval paintings, but less known are certain conditions described by Shakespeare, Dumas, and in operas.
The editors are grateful to the erudite authors of the chapters herein, often striking and entertaining, and which bring new light to both artists and neurological conditions.
Julien Bogousslavsky
Michael G. Hennerici
Hansjörg Bäzner
Claudio Bassetti
Bogousslavsky J, Hennerici MG, Bäzner H, Bassetti C (eds): Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists – Part 3. Front Neurol Neurosci. Basel, Karger, 2010, vol 27, pp 1–10
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Leonardo da Vinci and Stroke – Vegetarian Diet as a Possible Cause
Şerefnur Öztürk a , Marta Altieri b , Pina Troisi b
a Department of Neurology, Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey and b Department of Neurological Sciences, Clinica Neurologica A, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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