Kisa Lala blogs about the new book Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum by Nicholas Tromans.

Lala writes that after murdering his father, Dadd was "was put away in an asylum where he began work on a series of influential masterpieces… In Troman's book, the author tries to separate Dadd, who was already a trained artist, from the work of 'outsider artists…' "