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Throughout the history of European modernism, philosophers and artists have been fascinated by madness. Something different happened in Brazil, however, with the "art of the insane" that flourished within the modernist movements there. From the 1920s to the 1960s, the direction and creation of art by the mentally ill was actively encouraged by prominent figures in both medicine and art criticism, which led to a much wider appreciation among the curators of major institutions of modern art in Brazil, where pieces are included in important exhibitions and collections. Kaira M. Cabañas shows that at the center of this advocacy stood such significant proponents as psychiatrists Osório César and Nise da Silveira, who championed treatments that included painting and drawing studios; and the art critic Mário Pedrosa, who penned Gestaltist theses on aesthetic response. Cabañas examines the lasting influence of this unique era of Brazilian modernism, and how the afterlife of this "outsider art" continues to raise important questions. How do we respect the experiences of the mad as their work is viewed through the lens of global art? Why is this art reappearing now that definitions of global contemporary art are being contested? Learning from Madness offers an invigorating series of case studies that track the parallels between psychiatric patients' work in Western Europe and its reception by influential artists there, to an analogous but altogether distinct situation in Brazil.

Art and mental illness --- Outsider art --- Art --- Brazilian modernism. --- Mário Pedrosa. --- art and madness. --- art of the insane. --- creative care. --- global contemporary art. --- global modernism. --- outsider art. --- patient-artists. --- psychiatric art.

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Nouveaux réalistes (Group of artists) --- Performative (Philosophy) --- Art and society --- History --- Nouveaux réalistes (Group of artists). --- Performative (Philosophy).

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In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper, one of the first major international exhibitions to present the avant-garde dramatist and poet's paintings and drawings. Derrida's original title, "Artaud the Moma," is a characteristic play on words. It alludes to Artaud's calling himself Mômo, Marseilles slang for "fool," upon his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years in various asylums, while playing off of the museum's nickname, MoMA. But the title was not deemed "presentable or decent," in Derrida's words, by the very institution that chose to exhibit Artaud's work. Instead, the lecture was advertised as "Jacques Derrida . . . will present a lecture about Artaud's drawings."For Derrida, what was at stake was what it meant for the museum to exhibit Artaud's drawings and for him to lecture on Artaud in that institutional context. Thinking over the performative force of Artaud's work and the relation between writing and drawing, Derrida addresses the multiplicity of Artaud's identities to confront the modernist museum's valorizing of originality. He channels Artaud's specter, speech, and struggle against representation to attempt to hold the museum accountable for trying to confine Artaud within its categories. Artaud the Moma, as lecture and text, reveals the challenge that Artaud posed to Derrida-and to art and its institutional history. A powerful interjection into the museum halls, this work is a crucial moment in Derrida's thought and an insightful, unsparing reading of a challenging writer and artist.

Artaud, Antonin --- Criticism and interpretation --- Artaud, Antonin, --- Artaud, Antoine Marie Joseph, --- Arto, Antonen, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Artaud, Antoine Marie Joseph --- Arto, Antonen

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Tinguely, Jean, --- Sculpture --- installations [visual works] --- sculpture [visual work] --- Kinetic [style] --- Tinguely, Jean --- sculpture [visual works] --- Tinguely, Jean. --- Kinetic Art

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Tinguely, Jean --- destruction --- machines [general equipment] --- sculpture in the round --- Auto-destructive art --- motion --- 7.071 TINGUELY --- 73.071 TINGUELY --- destructie --- kinetische kunst --- kunst --- twintigste eeuw --- Zwitserland --- beeldhouwkunst --- Tinguely Jean --- Frankrijk --- Exhibitions --- performance art --- Sculpture --- assemblages [sculpture] --- installations [visual works] --- public spaces --- outdoor sculpture --- destruction [process] --- kunst in de openbare ruimte