Posted by on Jun 6, 2012

Does it trivialise mental illness to suggest that the best artists produce their most important works while they are on the brink of madness? This was the suggestion made by author AL Kennedy in her recent Radio 3 Sunday Feature. Throwing around examples like Van Gogh, who can’t have been sane to cut off his ear, and Sylvia Plath, who was known for her...

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