Révélations: Iconographie de la Salpêtrière, Paris 1875-1918
Javier Viver
Editorial RM
Hardcover
288 pages
220 x 220 mm
2015
ISBN 9788416282456
Drawing from 32 volumes of photographs published between 1875 and 1918, editor Javier Viver has assembled this superbly produced compilation of portraits of patients at the Parisian psychiatric hospital the Salpêtrière during its years of directorship under Jean-Martin Charcot, the founder of modern neurology.
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About the Artist
Javier Viver (b. 1971, Madrid) is a Doctor of Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has made residency programs in the School of Visual Arts, Location One in New York, the Academy of Spain and in Rome, Hangar and Barcelona. He currently lives and works in Madrid.
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About the Publisher
RM is one of the most prestigious publishers of art books in Latin America, focusing primarily on photography and contemporary art. It also maintains a select catalogue of Latin American literary classics. RM Has published more than 190 titles by or about writers and artists of the international stature of Graciela Iturbide, Myako Ishiuchi, Carlos Amorales, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Martin Parr, Julio Cortázar, Daido Moriyama, Luis Barragán, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Masao Yamamoto, Juan Rulfo, Agustín Jiménez, Marcos López, Jeff Wall, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Paolo Gasparini, and León Ferrari.
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