Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum

The public appetite for Dadd's bewitching art has never been greater, and this long-overdue reassessment — published in association with the Tate, London, and featuring 100 color plates — provides a vivid account of one of the most fascinating artists of the Victorian era.

Interpretations of Dadd's art have been coloured by Romantic notions of creativity and madness, by enthusiasm for Outsider Art, and by the ideas of Michel Foucault and the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s. ...