The Madness of Richard Dadd

Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke, c. 1855-64
Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke, c. 1855-64

Kisa Lala blogs about the new book Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum by Nicholas Tromans.

Lala writes that after murdering his father, Dadd was "was put away in an asylum where he began work on a series of influential masterpieces... In Troman's book, the author tries to separate Dadd, who was already a trained artist, from the work of 'outsider artists...' "