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Art and mental illness Germany History 20th century Art Destruction and pillage Germany History 20th century Killing of the mentally ill Germany History 20th century Libraries Destruction and pillage Mali Mali Tombouctou Manuscripts, Arabic National socialism and art Prinzhorn, Hans 1886-1933 Prinzhorn, Hans 1886-1933 Art collectionsFilter By Authors
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Summary: The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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Summary: "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021