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Richard Dadd

Hardcover • 2011 • English

Richard Dadd: the artist and the asylum

By Nicholas Tromans

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About the book

The most brilliant young artist of his generation, Richard Dadd (1817-76) made his name with a sequence executed fairy paintings of huge imaginative power. Following a long tour of the Middle East in the early 1840s he succumbed to a 'schizophrenic' illness, murdered his father, fled to France where he attacked another traveller, was apprehended by police and confessed to his crime. After his return to England he spent over forty years in Britain's most famous lunatic asylums, never ceasing to w...Show more

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ISBN

9781854379597

Publisher

Tate Pub

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Richard Dadd

Format

Hardcover

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