Art, Crime and Madness: Gesualdo, Carravagio, Genet, Van Gogh, Artaud

by Shlomo Giora Shoham

Art, Crime and Madness explores the relationship between creative innovation, deviance and morbidity by historical case studies of the madrigalist Don Carlo Gesualdo, prince of Venosa, the painter Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio, Jean Genet the homosexual thief, Vincent Van Gogh, and Antonin Artaud, the revolutionary cinema director.

209 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2002