{"id":53636,"date":"2023-01-20T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=53636"},"modified":"2023-01-19T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T12:08:04","slug":"new-forms-of-art-and-contagious-mental-illness-carl-julius-salomonsen-new-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=53636","title":{"rendered":"New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness. Carl Julius Salomonsen. 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target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/new-forms-of-art-and-contagious-mental-illness-carl-julius-salomonsen-9781953441102-2-682x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53644\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/new-forms-of-art-and-contagious-mental-illness-carl-julius-salomonsen-9781953441102-2-682x682.jpeg 682w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/new-forms-of-art-and-contagious-mental-illness-carl-julius-salomonsen-9781953441102-2-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/new-forms-of-art-and-contagious-mental-illness-carl-julius-salomonsen-9781953441102-2-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/new-forms-of-art-and-contagious-mental-illness-carl-julius-salomonsen-9781953441102-2-768x768.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/new-forms-of-art-and-contagious-mental-illness-carl-julius-salomonsen-9781953441102-2.jpeg 1444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years 1919\u201320, the celebrated medical scientist and doctor Carl Julius Salomonsen began giving public lectures and publishing pamphlets regarding a new \u201cepidemic\u201d that had begun to affect the European populace: the increasing ubiquity of modernist art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 1919 pamphlet titled <em>New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness<\/em>, he wrote: \u201cWe stand, at this moment, before a movement in art which is psychopathic in character, and whose victorious journey through all countries is probably caused by the same spiritual disease that gave the older, religious spiritual epidemic such a powerful spread.\u201d This pamphlet and the accompanying talks were countered by a retaliatory pamphlet published by members of Gr\u00f8nningen, a Copenhagen modernist painters group, to which Salomonsen responded with a further pamphlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Translated into English for the first time by literary theorist Andrew Hodgson, the entire altercation is gathered in this book, documenting one of the earliest rejections of modernist art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edited &amp; Translated by Andrew Hodgson<br><br>Order <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/shop\/new-forms-of-art-and-contagious-mental-illness-carl-julius-salomonsen-9781953441102.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years 1919\u201320, the celebrated medical scientist and doctor Carl Julius Salomonsen began giving public lectures and publishing pamphlets regarding a new \u201cepidemic\u201d that had begun to affect the European populace: the increasing ubiquity of modernist art. In a 1919 pamphlet titled New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness, he wrote: \u201cWe stand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8481,5470,5471,8480,8482,2853,8479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53636"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53645,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53636\/revisions\/53645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}