Religious and spiritual motifs in the art of the patients of Nikkilä Hospital

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 cu...

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Published in:Approaching religion
Main Author: Kuuva, Sari (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2021]
In: Approaching religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Helsingin Kaupunginmuseo / Psychiatry / Patient / Painting / Religion (Motif) / Spirituality
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
CE Christian art
KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia
Further subjects:B Spirituality
B Esotericism
B Nikkilä Hospital
B Art of Psychiatric Patients
B Religiousness
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1799-3121
Contains:Enthalten in: Approaching religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.30664/ar.98057