Over the course of nearly 40 years, patients at Great Britain’s Netherne Hospital for the mentally ill produced art. Some of the time it was done on the sly, as people craving a creative outlet doodled in the margins of books from the hospital library, or even on strips of toilet paper. In the early days of the 1940s and ‘50s, “crazy people” were sometimes kept immobilized and even blindfolded.
Abandoned Goods
Abandoned Goods
Abandoned Goods
Over the course of nearly 40 years, patients at Great Britain’s Netherne Hospital for the mentally ill produced art. Some of the time it was done on the sly, as people craving a creative outlet doodled in the margins of books from the hospital library, or even on strips of toilet paper. In the early days of the 1940s and ‘50s, “crazy people” were sometimes kept immobilized and even blindfolded.