Seeing the Insane is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has both reflected and shaped the perception and treatment of the mentally disturbed. Covering the Middle Ages through the end of the nineteenth century, Sander L. Gilman explores the depictions of mental illness as seen in manuscripts, sculptures, lithographs, and photography. With artistic renderings and medical illustrations side-by-side, this volume includes over 250 visual displays of the mentally ill. These images capture society's reliance on visual motifs to assign concrete qualities to abstract ailments in an attempt to understand the marginalized. Gilman's collection of images demonstrates how society has relegated the mentally ill to a state of "otherness" and portrays how society's perceived realities concerning the insane have morphed and evolved over centuries. Sander L. Gilman, PhD, is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A respected educator, he has served as Old Dominion Visiting Professor of English at Princeton; Northrop Frye Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto; Mellon Visiting Professor of Humanities at Tulane University; Goldwin Smith Professor of Humane Studies at Cornell University; and Professor of the History of Psychiatry at Cornell Medical College. He has written and edited several books including The Face of Madness and Sexuality: An Illustrated History . " Seeing the Insane is a visual history of the stereotypes that have shaped the perception of the mentally ill from medieval through modern times. The result is nearly as heartbreaking as a visual history of the Holocaust. In picture after picture, the book portrays centuries of intolerance for deviance, mindless cruelty, unthinking prejudice, and self-righteous abuse of the weak and ill." - American Journal of Psychiatry "As extraordinary in concept as it is in its execution. . . . This remarkable book helps laymen as well as specialists to see the insane, but it does far more. When we study the past, we understand the present. When we see the conventional stereotype images of insanity, we find they still color our concepts of madness. Through these pictures of the insane, we see all humanity. We look, not through a glass darkly, but through a multiplicity of media, brightly." - Antiquarian Bookman Readers interested in related titles from Sander L. Gilman will also want to see: Face of Madness: Hugh W. Diamond and the Origin of Psychiatric Photography (ISBN: 9781626549234), Sexuality: An Illustrated History (ISBN: 9781626549227).

LET THERE BE SCULPTURE by Jacob Epstein FOUNDED 1838 G. P. PUTNAMS SONS NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1940, BY JACOB EPSTEIN All rights reserved. TAis book, or parts thereof, must not b reproduced in any jorm without permission. Designed by jRolwt Josephy Itia IN THE UNITED STAVftS Of A M I El C A r M iit it Ay-, THE VISITATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR permission to quote from letters and articles published in numerous newspapers and periodicals, I wish to acknowledge my gratitude both to the publishers and, in the case of signed articles and letters, to the authors. My thanks are due to the Birmingham Mail, the British Medical Journal, the Catholic Times, the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, the Eve ning Standard including an article from the Pall Mall Gazette, now amalgamated with the Evening Standard, the Manchester GiMrdian, the Nation, Neptune, the New Age, the New English Weekly, the News Chronicle, the New Statesman, the New York Evening Post, the Observer, Picture Post, Reynolds Illustrated Weekly, the Spectator, the Star, the Sunday Dispatch, the Sunday Pictorial, the Sunday Times, the London Times, Truth, the Uni verse and to William Heinemann, Ltd., for permission to quote from Ibsens When We Dead Awaken, Also to the following people, who have given their personal per mission to quote their words from the sources mentioned above L. B, Powell, Professor D, S. MacColl, Sir Muirhead Bone, Holbrook Jackson, Mary Borden, Pierre Jeannerat, Sir Eric Maclagan, Richard Sickert, Sir Kenneth Clark, G. F. Hill, H. S. Goodhart-Rendel, J, B, Manson, T, W, Earp, Sir Edwin Lutyens, R. R. Tatlock, Sir Charles Allom, W, H. Coatc, Sir Charles Holden, James Bone, Sir Reginald Blomfield, Charles Marriott article in the Outlook, J Middleton Murry, Sander Pierron, Hugh Gordon Porteus, William McCance, Raymond Mortimer, Jan Gordon, R. H, Wilenskl, Bernard Shaw, H. G, Wells, Sir John Lavery, Ezra Pound article in the Bgoitt, Rev. Albert Beldea, Antony Blunt, Rev. L. Weatherhead, John Macadam, Rev. Edward ShilHto, Law rence Binyon, Sir George Hill, Robert Jessel and John Gibbons, CONTENTS i New York 1880-1902 3 n Paris Aa Apprenticeship. London Days of Struggle 1902-1905 15 in A Thirty Years War The Strand Statues 1908-1937 24 iv Contacts and Encounters 1908-1912 33 v The Tomb of Oscar Wilde 1912-1913 43 vi Abstractionists and Futurists. A Philosopher Friend 1913-1917 49 vii Portraits 58 vm My First Statue of Christ 1917-1920 92 ix On the Edge of Londons Bohemia 99 x The Hudson Memorial the Rima Row 1925 105 xi New York Revisited 1927 114 xn Day and Night Genesis. Old Testament Drawings 1929-1933 xni Behold the Man. Consummatum Est 1935-1937 xiv Les Fleurs du Mai 1938 142 vii viii CONTENTS xv Adam 1939 150 xvi Children 157 xvn African and Other Primitive Carvings 161 xvin The British Museum and Greek Sculpture 167 xix Journalists and the Jew. Dog Eats Dog 176 xx I Listen to Music 188 xxi The Position of the Artist. Sculptors of Today 194 xxn My Place in Sculpture 2 10 APPENDIX i The Strand Statues Controversy 217 n The Tomb of Oscar Wilde, Attack and Defense 254 in Mr. Epstein and the Critics by T. E, Hulmc 271 iv The Statue of Christ 278 v The Muirhead Bone Memorandum on the Hudson Memorial 288 vi The Battle of Day and Night 300 vii Genesis and the Journalists 308 vni Behold the Man 320 ix Consmmmtum Est 3 3 1 x Adam 34 xi Catalogue of the CMef Works of Jacob Epstein 354381 ILLUSTRATIONS The Visitation Frontispiece FACING PAGE Woman md Child the Strand Statues 26 Nan 36 Israfel 36 Dolores 50 Joseph Conrad 64 George Bernard Shaw 64 Albert Einstein 68 Admiral Lord Fisher 68 Haile Selassie Emperor of Abyssinia 74 JR. B, Cunninghame-Graham 80 The th Duke of Marlborongh 86 The Christ 94 Rimar-the W. H...

Journalist Max Lerner writes a stunningly honest account of the feelings and thoughts that marked his battle with two successive cancers and a heart attack. Journal entries from this extraordinary ordeal show how mind and body interweave in the healing process. A worthy companion to Anatomy of an Illness.--Kirkus Reviews.