Klaus Podoll MD, born in 1958, studied medicine and psychology at
the Heinrich-Heine University in D sseldorf, Germany. A neurologist
and a psychiatrist, he currently works in the Department of
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Aachen, Germany. His scientific
work includes 2 books and over 80 medical papers with a focus on
studies in migraine aura. He is also co-editor in chief of the
Migraine Aura Foundation website, (www.migraine-aura.org), one of
the leading Internet resources on migraines.
The late Derek Robinson (1928-2001) developed the migraine art
concept while employed as a career marketing executive for
Beohringer Ingelheim Limited, a multinational pharmaceutical
company. In 1973, he solicited graphic material for his company's
advertising campaign promoting a new drug for migraine prevention.
This became the catalyst for organizing a number of public
competitions in the 1980s which encouraged artists, both amateur
and professional, to illustrate the pain, the visual disturbances,
and the effect migraine had on their lives. According to Derek
Robinson, Migraine Art denotes the idea that techniques of
pictorial representational art may provide an adequate and
sometimes the best suited medium to express and communicate those
experiences which occur as signs and symptoms of migraine or as
reactions of the migraine sufferer to the said manifestations of
the disease.
“It has taken more than a decade and a half, but Migraine Art: The
Migraine Experience from Within has been well worth the wait for
all of us with an interest in visual phenomena and the brain…. [It]
stands as the definitive work of its kind—an incomparable
collection of material on the visual and other phenomena of
migraine, and, by implication, on the brain processes which
underlie these.”
—Foreword by Oliver Sacks
"One of the most fascinating under-the-radar art books of recent
times is North Atlantic’s Migraine Art, a book based on a contest
held in Germany which asked people to illustrate what a migraine
felt like. The results of the contest were incredible: crazy
nightscapes, lightening bolts through the eyes, parts of heads
missing…"
—RandomHouseLibrary.com
“First, Migraine Art is, literally, a beautiful book, filled with
both fascinating and gorgeous illustrations by migraine
artists—adults and children, celebrated and obscure. Klaus Podoll
and Derek Robinson provide a comprehensive overview of their
subject, the symptoms and mechanisms of migraine as translated into
“outsider” art by migraine sufferers. But they do something else
too; something humane and profound: they show us in remarkable
detail how people respond to pain with creativity, and tell us
much, too, about the unexplored bonds between science and the
humanities, between the hard facts of our bodies, and the labor of
our imaginations.”
—Andrew Levy, author of A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine
Diary
“This magnum opus from Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson is a key to
migraine research that has been a long time coming. If you want to
understand your own symptoms better, and those of others, there are
few books that will offer more insight.”
—Migraine and Headache News
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