Ebook {Epub PDF} Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum by Nicholas Tromans

 · Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum is a troubling feast for the eye. The Times Literary Supplement. Robert Irwin. Tromans's readings of the paintings are subtle and astute, but what really distinguishes his book is the close attention paid to .  · The story of Richard Dadd is well known to historians of art and madness. He was the promising young Victorian artist who, believing his father was Satan, murdered him and subsequently spent the rest of his life in the criminal lunatic departments of Bethlem and Broadmoor, where he continued to paint and to produce works that were arguably more compelling than those he completed Author: Allan Beveridge. The tale of the rediscovery of Dadd's greatest watercolor, “The Artist's Halt in the Desert,” on The Antiques Roadshow in has also entered popular folklore. Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum is the first thorough monograph on this neglected Victorian virtuoso. Alongside its color plates, critical essays overturn several myths about Dadd (revealing, for example, that his jailers were /5(42).

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When dealing with Richard Dadd (), it is impossible to avoid mentioning madness, but it would be a mistake to reduce him to that aspect. Though Dadd's artistic career spanned most of the Victorian age, he actually spent most of his life locked in various lunatic asylums, after he killed his father in a fit of dementia, when he was barely Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum is the first thorough monograph on this neglected Victorian virtuoso. Alongside its color plates, critical essays overturn several myths about Dadd (revealing, for example, that his jailers were generous and often acted as his patrons rather than as his oppressors) and trace the critical reception of his now widely admired art. Dadd as Painter and Illustrator; The Late Richard Dadd. London: Tate Gallery, Tromans, Nicholas. Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum.