This is a great article from The Wall Street Journal by Jeanette Winterson. The illustration is so much better in color but my scanner here at work is only black & white - total bummer, I know. The text is difficult to read so I'll include the first paragraph for you...
"The stories are well known; Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear and went mad. Sylvia Plath gassed herself. Anne Sexton committed suicide. Emily Dickinson was manic-depressive. Virginia Woolf worked through alternating bouts of madness and depression for most of her life. The mad, bad and dangerous wild boys of high art and popular culture make great copy - whether it's Caravaggio on the run for murder after one of his rages, or Allen Ginsberg, naked and drunk, howling through Manhattan. The women - Plath, Frida Kahlo, Maria Callas, Janis Joplin - imploding like dark stars, are the stuff of obsession."
that illustration is really nice, do you know who did it?
ReplyDeletePomme Chan - here is the link to the colored version - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704322004574475654003711242.html
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