INDEX
Note: Page references in italics refer
to Figures; those in bold refer to
Tables
Abstract Expressionism 18
depressive disorder in 196-216
mortality data 205
psychopathology and early deaths
in 203-5, 203
sublime in 187-95
Acéphale 139
Action Painting 39
Adoian, Akabi 226, 228
Adoian, Satenig 226
Adoian, Setrak 225, 226
adopted offspring technique 7
adoption 25
Akiskal, Hagop 222
Akiskal, Kareen 223
alchemic model 70-1
alcoholism 9, 16
Alzheimer's disease 28
Amour de L'Art, L' 136
amphetamines 36
André, Rogi 168, 169, 170
Joan Mirò 168-9
antidepressants 21
apophatic approach 69-70
Aragon, Louis 141-2, 159, 163,
164, 165
Aristotle: Problemata 6
Art Brut 39-42, 53
art informel 51
Asmat tribe 35
attractor concept 43-4
automatic writing 161
automatism, doctrine of 141
Bachelard, Gaston 108
Poetry of Space 107
Bacon, Francis 53
Bal thus 53, 142
Joan Mirò and His Daughter
Dolores 143
Bampfylde, John Codrington 19
Bataille, Georges 72, 137-40, 143,
153, 167
Documents 166
Inner Experience 143
'Sacrificial Mutilation and the
Severed Ear of Vincent Van
Gogh' 137
'Van Gogh Prometheus' 137
Bazaine, Jean 51
Baziotes, William 196, 203, 204,
205,209,213-14
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell 19
Bernheim, Georges 164
Beuys, Joseph 100
Bierstadt, Albert 194
bipolar disorder 9, 10, 57
Blake, William 19, 134-5, 138, 140,
141
Four Zoas, The 139
Man Who Taught Blake Painting
in His Dreams, The 134,
135
Blaue Reiter 84
Blaue Reiter Almanac 84
Blavatsky, Helena P. 84
Bohr, Niels 68
Bonaventure, St 99
Breton, André 141, 146, 152, 153,
159, 164, 167, 176, 232
Second Manifesto du Surréalisme
164
Surréalisme et la Peinture, Le
164, 165
Broca, Paul 37
Brooks, James 196, 204, 216
Burgess, Anthony 8, 54
Burke, Edmund 187, 189
Philosophical Enquiry into the
Origin of Our Ideas of the
Sublime and the Beautiful
54,188
Burns, Robert 19
Byron, Lord 18, 19, 24, 28
Camera Work 50
Campbell, Thomas 19
Capdevilla 52
Carlyle, Thomas 29
Casamada, Ràfols 51
Casas, Ramon 50
catastrophe theory 43, 104, 106,
107
ceramics 157
Cercle Maillol 50, 51-2
cerebral activity
hemispheric specialization
37-9
prefrontal lobe 39-42
Cézanne, Paul 229, 236
Chariot 151
Chat Noir 50
Chatterton, Thomas 19, 64
Cheever, John 8, 54
children's (plastic) art 39, 42
Chillida, Eduardo 98-102
Düsseldorf Monument 100
Gnomon 99
Homage to Architecture 101
Line Drawing (1994) 106
Monument to Fleming 99
On Board 105
Pencil Drawings (1961) 106
Praise of the Horizon 103
Praise of Water 102
Rumour of Limits IV 105
Silent Music 98
Christ Pantociater 173, 174
Church, Frederick 194
Clapes, Ajeo 51
Clare, John 19
Claudel, Paul 50
cocaine 36
cognitive traits 5, 12-13
Coleridge, Hartley 19
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 19, 29
Kubla Khan 6
collage 160-1, 163-7, 170
Collins, William 18-19
constitutional psychotopathy 8
Coover, Robert 54
Costas, Carlos 50
Cowper, William 19
Crabbe, George 19
Cravan, Arthur 50
creativity
as chaos/order cycle 43-4, 43
cognition and personality traits
4-5, 12-13
intervening variables and 5-6
mental illness and 6-12
nature of 2-3
personality and 3-4
Crichton, Michael 176
Cubism 69, 90, 159, 160
cyclothymia 17, 57
Dada 69, 72, 165, 166, 183
Dali, Salvador 43, 72, 165
Dalmau, Luis 50
Dario, Rubén 49
Darley, George 19
de Kooning, Willem 196, 204,
216
240
INDEX
De Sucre, Josep Maria 48-54
Apól noi 50
Field Marshal, The 52
Masks 49, 51, 52, 53
Ocell Daurat 50
Poema Barbar d'en Serrallonga
50
Poemas de Abril y Mayo 50
Delacroix, Eugène 187
delusions 17
depression 10, 16
depressive temperament 54
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
(DSM) 9
DSM-m 9, 22
Diderot, Denis 187
disengagement 3,4
dissociative state 3
Dix, Otto 51
Dostoyevsky, F. 36
drug abuse 16, 36
Dryden, John: Absalom and
Achitophel 6
Dubuffet, Jean 39, 53, 183
Duchamp, Marcel 70, 100
Dupin, Jacques 177
Dürer, Albrecht 106, 107
Melencolia I x-xiii, xi, xiv, 116,
239
Eckhardt, Meister 209
Edelweiss Club 91
ego boundaries 5
El Manifesto Negro 52
el noi del Sucre 50
electroconvulsive therapy 22
Elkin, Stanley 8, 54
Ellis, Havelock 6, 17
Els 4 gats 50
Eluard, Paul 176
Ensor, James 51
epilepsy 36
Ernst, Max 43, 165, 167
Estève, Maurice 51
eureka feeling 36
Eurythmy 89
Eyck, Jan van 106
Family History Research Diagnostic
Criteria 9
Fautrier, Jean: Rehén 51
Fauvism 159
Feininger, Lyonel 194
Fergusson, Robert 19
Foix, J.V. 72
Francis Xavier, St 173
Franco, General 146, 147, 183
Franz, M.-L. von 70
Frazer, Sir James: Golden Bough,
The 139
Freud, Sigmund 133, 142, 159
Friedrich, Caspar David 190
Monk by the Sea 189, 190
Futurism 159
Galton, Francis 17, 24
gambling 16
Gasch, Sebastià 152, 160, 161
Gauguin, Paul 197
Where do We Come From? What
are We? Where are We Goinq?
197
Gehry, Frank 176
German Expressionism 51-2, 69,
90
George, Marney 229
Gerbal 50
Geschwind Syndrome 36
Gheyn, Jacob de: Allegory: Old
Philosopher Seated on Globe
(Melancoly) xii, xii
Giacometti, Alberto 142
Girona, Maria 50
Glaser, Milton 176
Goemans 165, 166
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 29, 86,
92, 132, 142
Goldsmith, Oliver 19
Gordon, George 19
Gorky, Arshile 183, 196, 203-5,
208, 212-13, 221-37
Act of Creation
(Sdeghtzagordzutyum) 225
Aesthetics (Gegharvesd) 225
Agony 232,235
Armenia's Van Dreams 225
Artist and His Mother, The 226,
227, 227
Betrothal II 232
Charahan Sourp Nishan Hokiner
226
Charred Beloved II 232, 233
Garden of Sochi 228
Good Afternoon Mrs. Lincoln
224
Hishoughoutiun 222
How My Mother's Embroidered
Apron Unfolds in My Life
222,224,227
Image of Khorkom 221
Images of Haiyotz Dzor 225
Liver is the Cock's Comb, The
232,232
Orators 225, 233
Painting 231
Park Street Church 228
Plough and the Song, The 233
Portrait of Myself and My
Imaginary Wife 229, 230
Portrait ofVartoush 225
Queen ofVosdan 223
Scent of Apricots on the Field, The
223
Study for Nighttime, Enigma and
Nostalgia 230
Unattainable 232
Vana Danjank 225
Water of the Flowery Mill, The
232
Waterfall 223
Youth's Comrades 225
Gorky, Maro 231
Gorky, Maxim 228
Gottlieb, Adolph 196, 207, 216
Divisions of Darkness 207, 209
T 207,208
Gourmont, Remy 50
Goya, Francisco de 52
Romena de San Juan, The 53
Gray, Thomas 19
Grupo Lais 52
Guston, Philip 196, 203, 204,
213
Hague, Raoul 229
hallucinations 17
Hawker, Robert Stephen 19
Heaney, Seamus 29
Hemingway, Ernest 176
Henderson, J.L. 70
Heraclitus 134
heredity of creativity 6-7,10,11,
24-5
Heym 51
Hugnet, Georges 154, 163, 166
Hunt, Leigh 19
Hurtuna 52
Huxley, Aldous: Doors of Perception,
The 106
hypnagogia 45
hypofrontality state 40
hypomania 16, 57
illumination 42
Ingres, Jean-Auguste 236
inspiration 42
intellectual abilities 6, 10, 12
intense focus 3
interictal behavior syndrome 36
intuition 42
inverted U-shaped curve 58
Irving, John 8, 54
Isenheim altar 107
Jacobi, J. 70
Jaffé, A. 70
James, Alice 172
James, Henry 172
James, William 172
Variety of Religious Experience,
The 36
Janusian thinking 54
Jeux d'Enfants 155
John of the Cross, St xiv, 101, 108,
127, 141, 173
Johnson, Samuel 19
Jung, C.G. 34, 69, 70, 71, 73, 126,
206
Junoy, Josep Maria 151
Kafka, Franz 51
Kaiser, Georg 51
Kakuzo, Okakura: Tea Book 79
241
INDEX
Kandinsky, Wassily 82-5, 88, 90,
96
Composition II 83
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
82, 84
Small Pleasures 83
Kant, I. 187
Critique of Judgment 189
Keats, John 19, 29
Ode to Melancholy 6
Kirchner, Ernst 51
Klee, Paul 39, 84, 90, 194
Kline, Franz 196, 204, 205, 214-15
Klint, Hilma af 90-3, 95
Looking at the Dog-Rose 93
Mohamedan Point oJView 93
Swan, The 93
Ten Biggest, No 1, The 92
Original Chaos No. 1 91
Kojève, Alexandre 167
Kokoschka, Oskar 51
Lacan, Jacques 167
Landon, Walter Savage 19
Lang, C.G. 51
Lange-Eichbaum 24
Lautremont 72
Leiris, Michel 72, 138, 153
Age d'Homme, L' 139
Leonardo: Last Supper 132
Levy, Julien 233
Lifetime Creativity Scales 23
limbic system 35
Linnell, John 135
lithium 21, 22-3, 57, 60-4
Llorens I Artigas, Josep 151
Llull, Ramon 78
Loeb, Pierre 164
Logan, Joshua 60-1
logos, concept of 2
Lombroso, Cesare 6, 17, 24, 172
London, Frank 216
Longinus 29, 187
Lowell, Robert 8, 29, 54, 58, 61,
62
Loyola, Ignatius 173
LSD 36
Lugones, Leopoldo 49
Macke, Auguste 51, 84
madness, artistic creativity and
25-8
Magic Realism 183
Magritte, René 43
Magruder, Agnes 231, 232
Mangan, James Clarence 19
manic-depressive illness 7, 28
Manifesto of Surrealism 141
Marc, Franz 84, 194
Marcoussis, Louis 115, 131
Martin, John: Creation, The 191,
194
masonite 155
Massine, Leonide de 155
Masson, André 43, 134, 135, 139,
140, 145, 152, 153, 160
Mythologies 139
Portrait of Blake 139
Sacrifices 139
Visionary Portrait of Heraclitus
134, 140
Mathieu, George 72
Matisse, Pierre 123, 131, 135, 155,
173
matter painters 51
melancholy 15, 16, 48
Melgar, Francisco 153, 154, 159
Memorias 52
Meyrink, Gustav 51
Michelangelo 179
middle generation 51
Min Amun 35
Minotaure 140
Mirador 151
Miro, Dolores 142
Miro, Joan xii-xiv, 33, 35, 39, 43,
68, 72, 196, 206, 236, 239
chaos in 150-7
dream paintings 117, 141
laddersin 118-22,146
self-portraits 122-5, 131-47
works:
27 Paintings on Masonite 155
Birth of the World, The 117,
117, 125, 196
Carnival of Harlequin, The
117-18, 119
Catalan Landscape (The
Hunter) 152, 182
Check, The (L'Addition) 115
Circus, The (Le Cirque) 114,
115, 115
Collage (1929) 160
Composition 164
Constellation series 120, 146,
156-7
Constructions 154, 161
Dog Barking at the Moon 118,
120
Escape Ladder, The (1939)
118,121
Farm, The 117, 118, 119, 152,
155, 176
Flight of a Bird Over the Plain
146
Head of Catalan Peasant 140,
175
Head of Georges Auric 160,
161
Hope of Man Condemned to
Death, The 180, 181
Horse, Pipe and Red Flower
184
House with Palm Tree 151,
152
Ladder of Escape, The (1940)
118, 120, 122
Lithograph VIII 39
Music, Michel, Bataille and
Myself 138
On the 13th, the Ladder
Brushed the Firmament
118, 120, 123
Painting on Masonite (1936)
155
Paper Collage 160
Personage with Umbrella 163
Personnage 163
Portrait of Mirò (1938) 112,
114, 115, 127, 131
Preliminary Sketch for Painting
165
Reaper, The 141
Relief Construction 162
Santa Maria d'Aneu 175
S elf-Portrait 126
S elf-Portrait (1919) 132, 133,
146
Self-Portrait (1936) 170
Self-Portrait (1939) 145
Self-Portrait (1942) 146, 146
Self-Portrait I (1937) 122,123,
124, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136,
138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143,
147, 174
Self-Portrait II 123, 125, 131
Self-Portrait on an Envelope
146, 147
Spanish Dancer, The 160
Still-life with Old Shoe 135,
136,136, 155
Study for a PortraitSelf-
Portrait (Etude pour un
portrait-autoportrait) 137,
137
Table with Glove 155
Tile Works, The 151
Tilled Field, The 152, 154
Trail, The 151
Untitled (Homage to Mirò) 127
Vegetable Garden with Donkey
151, 151
Village and Church of Mont-Roig
153
Woman in Front of a Shooting
Starili 178
Woman in Revolt 142, 144
Woman with Three Hairs, Birds
and Constellations 156
Mohammed 36
Mondrian, Piet 84, 90, 92, 194
Montaigne, Michel 44
mood (affective) disorder 9, 15-30
treatment 59-64
Mooradian, Karlen 234
Mooradian, Moorad 229
Mooradian, Vartoush 226, 228, 229
Moore, Thomas 187
Moreau, Jacques 172
Moses 36
Motherwell, Robert 123, 196, 203,
204,205, 208, 213-14
Elegy to the Spanish Republic
208,211
Evening (Melancholia) 60
Homely Protestant, The 208, 210
242
INDEX
Mozart, Wolfang Amadeus 108
Munch, Edvard 51, 59, 100
Münter, Gabriele 84
Muse, the 3
Mussikian, Sirun 229
nature-versus-nurture 25
Neue Künstlervereinigung group
84
New York School 17-18,187-95,
196-216
Newman, Barnett 192, 193, 194,
196, 208, 215
Adam 193
Beginning, The 194
Day One 193
Death of Euclid 193
Onement 194
Pagan Void 193, 197, 199
Stations of the Cross, First
Station 197, 199-200
Vir Heroicus Sublimis 192,195,
197
Nicolson, Harold 27
Nietzsche, F.W. 139
Nijinsky, Vaslar 6
Nisbet, J.F. 17
Noland, Kenneth 205, 215
Nolde, Emil 51
Nonell 50
Novalis 45
Olcott, Henry Steel 84
Oldenburg, Claes 183
Oliver, Pere 151
orbitofrontal syndrome 40
pareidolia 42,44
Paul, St 36
Peinture au Défi, La 159
persistence 4, 5
Photo-Realism 183
Picabia, Francis 50
Picasso, Pablo 39, 41, 50, 144,
151-2, 177, 179, 229, 236
Pidelaserra, Mariano 51
Pignon, Edouard 51
Pollock, Jackson 90, 100, 174,
191-2, 193, 194, 196, 203, 204,
205, 208, 212
Autumn Rhythm 197, 201
Deep, The 192
Echo, Number 25 197, 202
Full Fathom Five 192
Greyed Rainbow 192
Guardians of the Secret, The
197, 201
Number 1, 1948 191, 195
Number 32 197,202
Ocean Greyness 192
primates' painting 39
proto-artistic behaviors 35
psychopathological art 39, 42
psychopathological reasoning 54
psychosis 16, 18
Publicidad, La 151
Qols 100
Quinn, Edward: Picasso with
Painting, La Garoupe 41
Ràfols, J.F. 151, 152
Raphael: Transfiguration 87
Ravel, Maurice 37-8
Raven Progressive Matrices (RPM)
12
Ray, Man 167, 168, 169
André Breton 166
Joan Mirò 167
Self-Portrait 167
Raynal 160
Reinhardt, Ad 196, 204, 205, 209,
215
Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC)
9
reticular activating system (RAS)
activation 44,45
Revista Nova 151
Reynolds, Joshua 187
Ribera, Jusepe de: Poet, The xii,
xiii
Ricart, E.C. 151
Rielg, Alois 86
Rilke, Rainer Maria: Duino Elegy
98
Rimbaud, Arthur 71, 135, 140
Rogent 52
Romanticism 69
Roslin 236
Rosslin, Toros 225
Roth, Philip 8, 54
Rothko, Mark 192, 193, 194, 196,
203,204,211-12, 234
Entombment I 207, 207
Green and Tangerine on Red
197, 198
Green on Blue 192
Light Earth over Blue 190
Slow Swirl by the Edge of the Sea
197, 198
Untitled (1967) 207, 208
Untitled (1970) 199
Rubin, William 181, 182
Rusinol 50
Russell, Bertrand 73
Ryder, Albert 194
Sacs, Joan (Elies, Feliu; Apa)
151
Schary, Saul 229, 234
schizophrenia 7, 8, 17, 28, 38,
40
Schumann, Robert 24
Schwacher, Ethel 221
sculpture 163-4
Shelley, Mary 24
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 19, 29
Shousanig, Lady 225, 226
Smart, Christopher 19
Smith, David 196, 204, 205,
214
Soby, James Thrall 131
Socialist Realism 141
socialization processes 40
Soler de las Boijas 50
Soupault, Philippe 41
Soutine, Chaïm 51
split-brain patients 38
Stalin, Joseph 153
Steiner, Rudolf 84, 86, 88-9, 90,
91, 92, 93, 95, 96
Easter (Three Crosses) 89
Stern, Richard 61
Sternheim 51
Still, Clyfford 187, 189, 190, 192,
193, 194, 196, 216
1956-D 188
Untitled 189
Strigi, Hans 93-5
Composition 'Cabbages' 95
Ideal Landscape with Turnpike
95
Rose Pearl on Blue Shell-bowl
94
Styron, William 58
subaffective hypothesis 54
Subirachs 51
sublime 187-95
suicide 15, 16, 17, 18, 63
Suros 52
Surrealism 39, 52, 69, 159, 160
successes and failures 71-2
Tachisme 39
Tàpies, Antoni 51, 68-73, 76-80
Art I espiritualitat 78
Art I la contemplació interior, L'
78
Dragon 79
Foot and Crosses 81
Head with Two Crosses 81
Kakemono 78
Love, to Death 79
Newsprint Cross 75
Oval on White 81
Red Signs 80
Triptych 76-7
Zoom 74
temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE)
35-6
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 24
Tériade 159
Tharrats 51
Theosophical Society 84
Theresa, St xiii-xiv, 127, 141
Tillich, Paul 2, 126
Tobey, Mark 90
Todó 51
Tomlin, Bradley Walker 196, 204,
205,215-16
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de 6
243
INDEX
Trakl, Georg 51
Cantos de Muerte 53
transcendence 35
transition states 45
triune brain 34, 35
trompe l'oeil painting 183
Trotsky, Leo 153
Turner, Joseph Mallord William
135, 190
Evening Star 189, 191
Steamboat (Snowstorm) 191, 193
Tzara, Tristan 163, 165, 166
Tzu, Lao 209
Uccello, Paolo 236
unipolar disorders 57
University of Iowa Writer's
Workshop 8, 20, 24
Utrillo, Miquel 50
Valéry, Paul 49-50
Van Gogh, Vincent 28, 36, 63, 100,
136-8, 139, 140, 194
S elf-Portrait 137
Varley, John 134
Velazquez, Diego 155
Veil I Nou 151
Viani 51
Vienna School of Art History 86
Virgin in Majesty 173
visuo-emotional hyporeactivity 37
Vonnegut, Kurt 8, 54
Ward, James 188, 189, 190
Gordale Scar 187, 188
Wegener, Alfred 51
Weiler, Max 90
Wernicke, Carl 37
Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale
(WAIS) 10, 12
West, Michael 231
Weyden, Rogier van der: Crucifixion
106
Wiene 51
women, creativity in 5
Woolf, Virginia 24, 58, 63
Zurbaran, Francisco 107
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