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The debut novel from one of our most acclaimed art critics takes us into the tortured, strange and surprising mind of the Victorian painter Richard Dadd, painter of fairies and murderer of his father.
Bedlam is inspired by a year in the life of Richard Dadd, a great Victorian painter and inmate of London's Bethlem Hospital. It's a poetic and considered portrait of an artist, as well as an intriguing mystery about how, and why, a mind can go so swiftly and dangerously awry.
In 1842 Dadd took a Grand Tour of Europe and the Middle East. Within a year he had become a devotee of the god Osiris, and then become a killer, acting under the assumed direction of the Egyptian divinity. Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. Previously the editor of frieze magazine, and the presenter of Bow Down, a podcast about women in art history, she is the author and illustrator of the children's book There's Not One; the editor of The Artist's Joke and the author of The Mirror & The Palette: Rebellion, Revolution & Resistance, 500 Years of Women's Self Portraits, and The Other Side: Women, Art and the Spirit World.
Bedlam is inspired by a year in the life of Richard Dadd, a great Victorian painter and inmate of London's Bethlem Hospital. It's a poetic and considered portrait of an artist, as well as an intriguing mystery about how, and why, a mind can go so swiftly and dangerously awry.
In 1842 Dadd took a Grand Tour of Europe and the Middle East. Within a year he had become a devotee of the god Osiris, and then become a killer, acting under the assumed direction of the Egyptian divinity. Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. Previously the editor of frieze magazine, and the presenter of Bow Down, a podcast about women in art history, she is the author and illustrator of the children's book There's Not One; the editor of The Artist's Joke and the author of The Mirror & The Palette: Rebellion, Revolution & Resistance, 500 Years of Women's Self Portraits, and The Other Side: Women, Art and the Spirit World.