RT Article
T1 Religious and spiritual motifs in the art of the patients of Nikkilä Hospital
JF Approaching religion
VO 11
IS 1
SP 135
OP 55
A1 Kuuva, Sari
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1752978978
AB This article focuses on religiousness and spirituality in the art works of psychiatric patients of Nikkilä Hospital, Finland. The pictures analysed here belong to a collection held at the Helsinki City Museum and they were made during the twentieth century. The theoretical frame of the study is a cultural study of mental health. The collection is approached as presenting a specific kind of imagery which has connections not only to the personal history and diagnoses of the patients; their cultural context and hospital environment is also taken into account. The religiousness and spirituality of the Nikkilä collection are also compared with outsider art and examples of art history internationally.
K1 Art of Psychiatric Patients
K1 Esotericism
K1 Nikkilä Hospital
K1 Religiousness
K1 Spirituality
DO 10.30664/ar.98057