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Author	English, Charlie.
Title	The gallery of miracles and madness : insanity, modernism, and Hitler's war on art / Charlie English.
Publication Info.	New York : Random House, [2021]
	©2021

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 2	943.085 E	IN LIBRARY

Edition	First US edition.
Description	xxi, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The man who jumped in the canal -- The hypnosis in the wood -- A meeting at Emmendingen -- Dangerous to look at! -- The schizophrenic masters -- Adventures in no-man's land -- Pleasant little pictures -- Dinner with the Bruckmanns -- Glimpses of a transcendental world -- Art and race -- A cultural revolution -- The sculptor of Germany -- Cleansing the temple of art -- To be German means to be clear -- The sacred and the insane -- The girl with the blue hair -- Foxes with white coats -- Choking angel -- You will ride on the gray bus -- In the madhouse -- Landscapes of the brain.
Subject	National socialism and art.
	Art and mental illness -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
	Prinzhorn, Hans, 1886-1933 -- Art collections.
	Prinzhorn, Hans, 1886-1933. Bildnerei der Geisteskranken.
	Art -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
	Killing of the mentally ill -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Added Title	Insanity, modernism, and Hitler's war on art
ISBN	9780525512059 (hardcover)
	0525512055 (hardcover)
	9780525512066 (ebook)

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