Madness & Modernity

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Wednesday, 1 April 2009 - Sunday, 28 June 2009

Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, Kings Cross, NW1 2BE

Exhibitions: , Art, Architecture, Science, Museum, History

How Much: Free!
You can always bank on the Wellcome Collection to be doing something interesting, and this exhibition looks like it might be one of their best yet.

Madness & Modernity is an examination of the relationship between mental illness and the visual arts in fin de siècle Vienna. Led by Sigmund Freud, Vienna was at the forefront of psychiatric innovation during this period and the exhibition - combining art, architecture and design alongside therapeutic equipment and pieces by asylum patients - emphasises the specificity of the era in terms of creativity and attitudes towards identity.

Foucault would be proud...

Until 28.06.09.
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