Art and Madness
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Images of the tormented artist, poet, painter and composer are familiar. but is there really a link between madness and art? Guests include: actress Margot Kidder; Dr. Louis Sass, a professor of clinical psychology and comparative literature at Rutgers University; Dr. David Schuldberg, a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Montana in Missoula; Dr. Richard Kogan, a psychiatrist and concert pianist; Linda Gray Sexton, writer and daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton. With commentary by John Hockenberry.
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Fascinating Connections, June 23, 2006
Reviewer: Seth Anderson
from Hollywood, California
This is probably my favorite of the Infinite Mind programs that I've heard so far. Each segment explores how mental illness has informed some of the greatest works of art, and can help to fuel creativity.
Interviewed is a surprisingly lucid Margot Kidder, who articulates how the cycles in her battle with manic depression helped feed either total withdrawl from the world or an insatiable need to express creative ideas. We also hear from poet Anne Sexton's daughter on the relationship she had with her mother (who committed suicide at the age of 45), and her worry that an artist may have to be crazy in order to be truly great. Running through all of this is a tragic paradox: mental illness amplifies creative innovation but also tends to destroy the artist in the process.
- Published:
2001
- LearnOutLoud.com Product ID:
A018578
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