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“... psychiatric conditions, the latter see only our developing conditioning by the therapeutic state. Anne Digby’s monograph on the history of the York Retreat, and the two volumes of essays edited by Bynum, Porter and Shepherd, pay eloquent testimony to the transformation effected in the history of psychiatry over the last twenty or thirty years. The ...”

“... It is easy to conjure up landscapes of the past peopled by holy fools, and to suppose that medieval times were full of simpleton jesters, and boy bishops leading rites of inversion and showing how all sinners were equal in God’s eyes. It is equally easy to imagine a subsequent darkening of the plain – the old Christian reverence for simplicity yielding to the carceral project of modernity, Foucault’s great confinement ...”

“... suit and tie.The pictures easily assert their status as something more than pertinent examples. Anne Hollander’s book accompanying the exhibition (which she also curated) is perfectly comprehensible on its own,* but that is no reason to be ungrateful for a well-mannered reshuffling of some of the Gallery’s most remarkable pictures and the chance to look ...”

“... One photograph, which ran in 1941 under the title Fashion Is Indestructible, shows a model in Digby Morton suit and neat little hat, gazing away from the camera at the ruins of Middle Temple. The Inn had taken a direct hit, but the façade survived, and she stands arrested between two arches: a pillar before a pillar. Her expression as she surveys the ...”