Victorian Flower Paintings: A Pictorial Record of a Schizophrenic Episode (1968)

Synopsis

Produced by the Institute of Psychiatry, London Paintings from a folio in the Guttmann-Maclay collection are dated so that they can be sampled over a period of a year and a half. These watercolors of flowers undergo fantastic distortions in the middle period and revert later to the conventional, thus indicating that the unknown artist was undoubtedly passing through a temporary phase of schizophrenic illness

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Running time

7 minutes

Language

English

Collection

Educational Films, Ephemeral Films

Subjects on the Internet Archive

• Schizophrenia
• Psychiatry in art
• Art and mental illness

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