Ovartaci: The Signature of Madness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9788775970872)

Hospitalized following a mental health crisis in 1929, Louis Marcussen (1894--1985) begins a spectacular journey. He fills his room at the psychiatric institution with artworks, with tall and eloquent cut-out female figures, and he seems to invest himself deeply in his work and visions. He dissolves into a swirl of male, female, animal and divine identities. He discards the name 'Louis' and takes the name 'Ovartaci'. The present book reads Ovartaci's work through psychoanalytical notions of madness and psychosis. It is the first major monograph on an artist that through highly original artistic practices invented a new way of living.

Author: Brian Benjamin Hansen
ISBN-10: 8775970872
ISBN-13: 9788775970872
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2022
Pages: 263
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.20h x 8.30w x 0.70d