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The Art of Frenzy skilfully traces the various traditions of conceptualizing and representing mania from the Greeks onwards. Kromm focuses on the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to explore the relationship between madness, art and politics. Wide-ranging, scholarly and integrating image and text with great skill, The Art of Frenzy presents a highly original and scholarly analysis of the cultural representation of madness in art and literature. --Professor Roy Porter, Welcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College

..a very welcome and thoughtful introduction to an area of medical knowledge that was livelier and more topical than is now generally appreciated. Medical History Jane Kromm's The Art of Frenzy is a brilliant and original investigation of the public face of madness in Europe from 1500 to circa 1850. From heroic mania to riot and revolution, from the action of heroes to the hysteria of women, Jane Kromm creates an invigorating sense of the spectacle of madness and the inventive visual signs used to display it. Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, New York University Institute of Fine Art The Art of Frenzy skilfully traces the various traditions of conceptualizing and representing mania from the Greeks onwards. Kromm focuses on the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to explore the relationship between madness, art and politics. Wide-ranging, scholarly and integrating image and text with great skill, The Art of Frenzy presents a highly original and scholarly analysis of the cultural representation of madness in art and literature. Professor Roy Porter, Welcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College

"""The Art of Frenzy skilfully traces the various traditions of conceptualizing and representing mania from the Greeks onwards. Kromm focuses on the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to explore the relationship between madness, art and politics. Wide-ranging, scholarly and integrating image and text with great skill, The Art of Frenzy presents a highly original and scholarly analysis of the cultural representation of madness in art and literature.""--Professor Roy Porter, Welcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College ""Jane Kromm's The Art of Frenzy is a brilliant and original investigation of the public face of madness in Europe from 1500 to circa 1850. From heroic mania to riot and revolution, from the action of heroes to the hysteria of women, Jane Kromm creates an invigorating sense of the spectacle of madness and the inventive visual signs used to display it.""--Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, New York University Institute of Fine Art "".....a very welcome and thoughtful introduction to an area of medical knowledge that was livelier and more topical than is now generally appreciated."" -- Medical History"

The Art of Frenzy skilfully traces the various traditions of conceptualizing and representing mania from the Greeks onwards. Kromm focuses on the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to explore the relationship between madness, art and politics. Wide-ranging, scholarly and integrating image and text with great skill, The Art of Frenzy presents a highly original and scholarly analysis of the cultural representation of madness in art and literature. --Professor Roy Porter, Welcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College Jane Kromm's The Art of Frenzy is a brilliant and original investigation of the public face of madness in Europe from 1500 to circa 1850. From heroic mania to riot and revolution, from the action of heroes to the hysteria of women, Jane Kromm creates an invigorating sense of the spectacle of madness and the inventive visual signs used to display it. --Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, New York University Institute of Fine Art .....a very welcome and thoughtful introduction to an area of medical knowledge that was livelier and more topical than is now generally appreciated. -- Medical History

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Jane Kromm is Associate Professor of Art History at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is the author of numerous articles on the representation of madness.

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