Maggie Fergusson

All the art you’d pay not to own

Edward Brooke-Hitching’s freakish gallery includes giant Olmec heads, cans of excrement, nightmarish prison scenes and a woman’s face sprouting luxuriant hair

Portrait of Barbara van Beck, c.1640. [Wellcome Collection]

  • The Madman’s Gallery: The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities from the History of Art

    Edward Brooke-Hitching

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 255, £30

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