Asylum / Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals J. D. Zurita invents a form and

Zurita invents a form and language capable of bringing it into the present

die vanwege een aantal dodelijke ongevallen de naam de Gooise Moordenaar kreeg

de Zuiderzee

In de late negentiende eeuw had koningin Victoria meer dan dertig levende kleinkinderen

2 november 1925) was een Nederlands kunstschilder

Asylum / Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals J. D. Zurita invents a form andPowerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals