Review : Deep blues

Melancholic, or tormented genius? Depression and the Spiritual in Modern Art:
Homage to Miró, edited by psychiatrists Joseph Schildkraut and Aurora
Otero (Wiley, £40, ISBN 0 471 95403 9), explores in depth the links
between depression, artistic creativity and the spiritual quest. The text is
greatly enlivened by reproductions of paintings by Joan Miró himself and
other expressionists.