Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 4

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In this fourth volume of the popular series 'Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists' we once again delve into the minds of writers, painters, and poets in order to gain better insight on how neurological and psychiatric diseases can influence creativity. The issue of schizophrenia, the interaction between psychological instability and drug abuse, and the intricate association between organic wounds and shell-shock disorders are illustrated with the examples of Franz Kafka, Raymond Roussel, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline and their writings. Dementia has been specifically studied before, including in the previous volumes of Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists. It is revisited here in order to present the striking and well-documented case of Willem de Kooning, which inspired a new approach. Apart from issues that sometimes border on neuropsychiatry, purer neurological cases such as post-amputation limb pain (Arthur Rimbaud) or tabetic ataxia (Edouard Manet) are presented as well. Other fascinating life trajectories associated with cerebral or psychological changes include those of the writers Bjornsen, Tolstoi, Turgeniev, Mann, Ibsen, and Pavese.

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• Publié par: S. Karger AG
• Date de parution: 18 octobre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9783318063943
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 4
Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Vol. 43
Series Editor
J. Bogousslavsky Montreux
Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 4
Volume Editors
J. Bogousslavsky Montreux
L. Tatu Besançon
60 figures, 21 in color, 2018
Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience
Vols. 1-18 were published as Monographs in Clinical Neuroscience
Julien Bogousslavsky, MD, PhD Neurocenter Swiss Medical Network Clinique Valmont CH-1823 Glion/Montreux (Switzerland)
Laurent Tatu, MD, PhD Department of Neuromuscular Diseases and Department of Anatomy CHRU Besançon University of Franche-Comt FR-25000 Besançon (France)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bogousslavsky, Julien, editor. | Tatu, Laurent, editor.
Title: Neurological disorders in famous artists. Part 4 / volume editors, J. Bogousslavsky, Montreux, L. Tatu, Besançon.
Description: Basel ; New York : Karger, [2018] | Series: Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience, ISSN 1660-4431 ; vol. 43 | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018038129| ISBN 9783318063936 (hard cover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9783318063943 (e-ISBN)
Subjects: LCSH: Nervous system--Diseases. | Artists--Diseases.
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Contents
Preface
Joan Miró and Cyclic Depression
Delgado, M.G. (Oviedo); Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux)
Abstract Expressionists and Brain Disease
Piechowski-Jozwiak, B. (Abu Dhabi); Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux)
Louis-Ferdinand C line: From First World War Neurological Wound to Mythomania
Tatu, L.; Roynette, O. (Besançon); Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux)
Creative Minds in the Aftermath of the Great War: Four Neurologically Wounded Artists
Maingon, C. (Rouen); Tatu, L. (Besançon)
Writers as Shell Shock Witnesses during World War I
Tatu, L. (Besançon); Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux)
Édouard Manet s Tabes Dorsalis: From Painful Ataxia to Phantom Limb
Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux); Tatu, L. (Besançon)
Thomas Mann and Neurology
Caputi, N.; Birnbaum, D.; Boller, F. (Washington, DC)
Arthur Rimbaud: The Man with Wind Soles - Riders Osteosarcoma with Postamputation Stump Pain
Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux); Tatu, L. (Besançon)
Travelling into Alienation and Neurology with a Painter: Georges Moreau (1848-1901)
Walusinski, O. (Brou)
Neurology in Russian Writers: Tolstoy and Turgenev
Altavilla, R.; Paciaroni, M. (Perugia)
Raymond Roussel s Cure with Pierre Janet
Luaut , L.-P. (Romans)
Henrik Ibsen s Battle with Cerebrovascular Disease
Frich, J.C. (Oslo)
Letter to His Father by Franz Kafka: Literary Reconstruction of a Traumatic Childhood?
Castelon Konkiewitz, E. (Dourados); Ziff, E.B. (New York, NY)
Dementia and Change of Style: Willem de Kooning - Obliteration of Disease Patterns?
Piechowski-Jozwiak, B. (Abu Dhabi); Bogousslavsky, J. (Montreux)
Machado de Assis Original Sin
de Freitas, G.R. (Rio de Janeiro)
Cesare Pavese: The Laboratory of Loneliness - A study of Among Women Only
Steffen, J. (Cambridge)
Dissociation, Delusion and the Splitting of the Self in The Trial by Franz Kafka: Phenomenology and Neurobiology of Schizophrenia
Castelon Konkiewitz, E. (Dourados); Ziff, E.B. (New York, NY)
Author Index
Subject Index
Preface
Creativity is one of the most fascinating human resources, and its deployment in art is one of its best examples. It reflects closely mind activity, so it is not surprising that either psychological disorders or damage to brain function may modify or alter it. Indeed, psychiatric and neurological diseases in artists (writers, musicians, or painters) often lead to dramatic expressions of creativity, either acting as a stimulus, or causing extinction or loss, or simply changes.
In the following pages of this fourth volume on Neurological Diseases in Famous Artists , we have included examples that are often closer to neuropsychiatry. This is the case for Franz Kafka s relationship with his father, or with the issue of schizophrenia in his novel The Trial . The artistic output linked to depression with or without a brain lesion is also a fascinating topic, well reflected in many of the American abstract expressionists, Joan Miró, or Machado de Assis, while the interaction between psychological instability and drug abuse can be remarkably traced in Raymond Roussel s life and writings. Roussel s case is of particular interest, since he was followed and treated by Pierre Janet, Charcot s pupil and famous rival of Sigmund Freud. In the writer Louis-Ferdinand C line, a complex association between mythomania, paranoid beliefs, and devastating pamphlet production is also striking, and is complexified by posttraumatic injuries from World War I. More broadly speaking, this conflict was a particularly interesting setting for the intricate association between organic wounds and shell-shock disorders in several writers and artists.
The issue of dementia acting on artistic creativity has already been specifically studied, including in the previous volumes of Neurological Diseases in Famous Artists , but since the case of Willem de Kooning was so striking and well documented, a new address is proposed here.
Purer neurological cases are also presented, such as postamputation limb pain in Arthur Rimbaud, or tabetic ataxia in Édouard Manet. Other fascinating life trajectories associated with cerebral or psychological changes include those of the writers Tolstoi, Turgenev, Mann, Ibsen, and Pavese. We warmly thank the authors of the following chapters for providing these often extraordinary examples of human life and creativity as being influenced by mind and brain activity changes.
Julien Bogousslavsky Laurent Tatu
Bogousslavsky J, Tatu L (eds): Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists – Part 4. Front Neurol Neurosci. Basel, Karger, 2018, vol 43, pp 1–7 (DOI: 10.1159/000490400)

Joan Miró and Cyclic Depression
Montserrat G. Delgado a , Julien Bogousslavsky b
a Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain; b Neurocenter, Swiss Medical Network, Clinique Valmont, Montreux, Switzerland

Abstract
Psychopathology has been closely related with artists. A link between creativity and a tendency to affective disorders has become widely accepted. Several studies have shown that artists suffer disproportionately high rates of mood disorders, particularly manic depression and major depression. The famous twentieth century Spanish artist Joan Miró suffered from depression during the entirety of his life, as was recognized by some authors in private letters. The artist worked using several styles, as well as in ceramics and sculpture. Some of his work reflects the feelings he experienced during the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. He contributed considerably to the world of art with works such as The Farm as the culminant work of detailism, The Harlequin’s Carnival as one of the main expressions of surrealism, the Birth of the World as the precursor of abstract expressionism, or The Dutch Interiors with “mironians” shapes, among others. Whether depression was the inspiration for his work, or his work was the treatment for his depression, will never b