Making sense : art practice and transformative therapeutics / Lorna Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Lorna, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Making Sense utilises art practice as a pro-active way of thinking that helps us to make sense of the world. It does this by developing an applied understanding of how we can use art as a method of healing and as a critical method of research. Drawing from poststructuralist philosophy, psychoanalysis, arts therapies, and the creative processes of a range of contemporary artists, the book appeals to the fields of art theory, the arts therapies, aesthetics and art practice, whilst it opens the regenerative affects of art-making to everyone. It does this by proposing the agency of 'transformative therapeutics', which defines how art helps us to make sense of the world, by activating, nourishing and understanding a particular world view or situation therein. The purpose of the book is to question and understand how and why art has this facility and power, and make the creative and healing properties of certain modes of expression widely accessible, practical and useful."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

List of Illustrations ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction

Part I: Transformative Therapeutics as Healing for the Individual. 1. Making Sense of the Aesthetic Experience ; 2. Making Sense Inside the Clinic: Episodes of the Arts Therapies ; 3. Contesting the Clinic: Art, Therapy and the Schizophrenic ; 4. Making Sense Outside the Clinic

Part II: Transformative Therapeutics as a Critical Method of Thinking. 5. Making Sense of Territory: Art Practice and Material Thinking ; 6. Making Political Sense: Vera Frenkel's String Games ; 7. Making Sense at the Limit ; 8. Making Sense with the Pharma ; Conclusion

Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472573193

1472573196

9781350037779

135003777X

9781472594419

147259441X

9781472573209

147257320X

OCLC:

887216650