Madness, Artaud, Van Gogh, & The Harm of The Tortured Artist Trope [CC]

As a disabled artist, the idea that somehow my disabilities and mental illnesses make me a better artist has been a sort of shadow, shaping what others expect from me and what I expect from myself. And for awhile, I thought that it was true. But turns out there's a lot more to the connection between madness and genius than I thought. So today we're going to talk about why no, your art isn't better because you're suffering and how we need to stop looking at it that way. If you want to support me financially - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/sydne... Or get exclusive perks & content on Patreon! - patreon.com/SydneyZarlengo Find me on Insta and TikTok - @disabled.autistic.lesbian Request a video idea - https://forms.gle/TW5HAeZLmGLWNYwK7 Request a media review - https://forms.gle/rji1Hnw34ypSzA6cA Check out my undergrad work - https://www.disabledautisticlesbian.c... Sources & further resources - Your Art Isn’t Better Because You’re Suffering -    • Your Art Isn’t Better Because You’re Suffe...   Sylvia Plath effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_... Review of Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture by Benjamin Reiss - https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/7876... Your Brain On Chaos: Debunking The Myth Of Tortured Artist - https://medium.com/publishous/your-br... Madness, brilliance, and the trope of the ‘tortured artist’ - https://www.thestateofthearts.co.uk/f... The Toxic Tortured Artist Trope - https://peacockplume.fr/opinion/toxic... The ‘tortured artist’ trope is torturing artists - https://www.publicsource.org/the-tort... The Tortured Artist Is a Dangerous and Damaging Stereotype - https://studybreaks.com/thoughts/tort... Immersive Frida Kahlo - https://www.latimes.com/entertainment... Dadaism & the Asylum - https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/ar... Surrealism & Insanity - https://www.theguardian.com/books/202... The Theatre of Cruelty: First Manifesto (1932) by Antonin Artaud Disability Visibility by Alice Wong Theatre & Disability by Petra Kuppers Performance, Madness, & Psychiatry by A. Harpin & J. Foster