ABSTRACT
Theodore Bulkeley Hyslop (d. 1933), Physician Superintendent to the Royal Hospitals of Bridewell and Bedlam, was invited to lecture to the Art Workers’ Guild and the text was published in the Nineteenth Century. Though he never mentions the Post-Impressionist artists by name his talk was clearly a degrading attempt, on the model of Max Nordau (1849-1943) and the criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1836-1909), to suggest parallels between Post-Impressionist art and the art of the mentally disordered.
