The Art of Limits In Un coup de hache dans la tête (2022), Professor Raphaël Gaillard demonstrates how psychological suffering does not fuel creation, even if, working through the gaps in their pain, it does not prevent some artists from creating major works. Following a similar approach—one that avoids romanticism while still acknowledging the unprecedented experiences born of constraint—Anne Picq and ...
Arts & Sociétés
Letter of Seminar
Arts and disease
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# 134 | Art in the time of influenza: some points for consideration | Thibault Boulvain
That the so-called “Spanish flu,” which claimed millions of lives worldwide between the spring of 1918 and the latter half of 1919, left almost no trace in art is surprising, to say the least. It is this mystery that has been plaguing art historian Thibault Boulvain, and which he has set out to unravel, ...

