Pathologizing the artist
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The period of 1880-1920 saw a rise in pathologizing the artist, the medicalization of creativity. Cesare Lombroso with The Man of Genius and Max Nordau's Degeneration were the first efforts in the field.
Frank Kermode in the introduction to The Romantic Agony by Mario Praz writes:
- "Max Nordau's Degeneration aims at being a literary nosology of the Decadent Movement, but it is completely discredited by its pseudo-erudition, its grossly positivist point of view, and its insincere moral tone."
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Literature
- Mad Genius Controversy: Study in the Sociology of Deviance by George Becker
- Anti-Zolaism
- Degenerate art
- Mad genius
- Creativity and madness
- Tortured artist
- Outside artist
- Divine madness
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