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The Handbook of Art Therapy

The Handbook of Art Therapy

The Handbook of Art Therapy has become the standard introductory text into the theory and practice of art therapy in a variety of settings. The comprehensive book concentrates on the work of art therapists and the way that art and therapy can combine in a treatment setting to promote insight and change. In this fourth edition readers will gain both a historical overview of art therapy and insight into contemporary settings in which art therapists work with a new chapter on the use of new technology and working online. The authors are highly experienced in the teaching supervision and clinical practice of art therapy. Using first-hand accounts from therapists and patients they look particularly at the role of the art work in the art process and setting in which it takes place. Chapters explore the theoretical background from which art therapy has developed and the implications for practice including the influence of art and psychoanalysis creativity aesthetics and symbolism and the impact of different schools of psychoanalytic theory. Also featured is an extensive bibliography encompassing a comprehensive coverage of the current literature on art therapy and related subjects. Covering basic theory and practice for clinicians and students at all levels of training this book remains a key text for art therapists counsellors psychotherapists psychologists and students at all levels as well as professionals working in other arts therapies.

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The Chinese Art of Tea

The Chinese Art of Tea

First published in 1985 The Chinese Art of Tea is an exploration into the history of tea and the Chinese art of tea known as ch’a-shu. The book begins by delving into the history and legends surrounding tea before moving on to a study of the Emperor Hui Tsung’s treatise on tea and approaches to tea during the Ming Dynasty. It discusses tea gardens teahouses the relationship between tea and ceramics and the connection between tea and health. The book also features a detailed manual for practising the art of drinking tea including advice for choosing tea buying tea different types of infusion and drinking vessels and the attitude required for obtaining the fullest satisfaction from tea. The Chinese Art of Tea is ideal for anyone with an interest in the history and art of drinking tea and the social and cultural history of China.

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Rethinking Australia’s Art History The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

Rethinking Australia’s Art History The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

This book aims to redefine Australia’s earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category Aboriginal art tracing the term’s use through published literature in the late eighteenth nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Lowish reveals how the idea of Aboriginal art developed in the European imagination manifested in early literature and became a distinct classification with its own criteria and form. Part of the larger story of Aboriginal/European engagement this book provides a new vision for an Australian art history reconciled with its colonial origins and in recognition of what came before the contemporary phenomena of Aboriginal art. | Rethinking Australia’s Art History The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

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The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour

The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour

The redecoration of the exhibition spaces at the Borghese palace and villa undertaken together with the reinstallation of the family's vast art collections was one of the most important events in the cultural life of eighteenth-century Rome. In this comprehensive study Carole Paul reconstructs the planning and execution of the project and explains its multifaceted significance: its place in the history of Italian art architecture and interior design at a complex moment of transition from baroque to neoclassical style as well as its unrecognized but profound influence on the development of the modern art museum. The study shows how the installations and decorations worked together to evoke traditional themes in innovative ways. Addressed primarily to a new audience of tourists from abroad the thematic content of the spaces celebrated the greatness of the Borghese family and of Roman tradition while their stylistic diversity and sophistication made a case for the continued vitality - even modernity - of Roman art and culture. Designed for the exercise of a highly refined social performance these sites helped to model the experience of art as a form of enlightened modern civility. | The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour

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The Archaeology of Art Materials Practices Affects

The Archaeology of Art Materials Practices Affects

How can archaeologists interpret ancient art and images if they do not treat them as symbols or signifiers of identity? Traditional approaches to the archaeology of art have borrowed from the history of art and the anthropology of art by focusing on iconography meaning communication and identity. This puts the archaeology of art at a disadvantage as an understanding of iconography and meaning requires a detailed knowledge of historical or ethnographic context unavailable to many archaeologists. Rather than playing to archaeology’s weaknesses the authors argue that an archaeology of art should instead play to archaeology’s strength: the material character of archaeological evidence. Using case studies - examining rock art figurines beadwork murals coffin decorations sculpture and architecture from Europe the Americas Asia Australia and north Africa -the authors develop an understanding of the affective and effective nature of ancient art and imagery. An analysis of a series of material-based practices from gesture and improvisation to miniaturisation and gigantism assembly and disassembly and the use of distinctions in colour enable key concepts such as style and meaning to be re-imagined as affective practices. Recasting the archaeology of art as the study of affects offers a new prospectus for the study of ancient art and imagery. | The Archaeology of Art Materials Practices Affects

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Generative Systems Art The Work of Ernest Edmonds

Generative Systems Art The Work of Ernest Edmonds

In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmonds’ art from the late 1960s to the present day. Edmonds’ inventions of new concepts tools and forms of art along with his close involvement with the communities of computer artists constructive artists and computer technologists provides the context for discussion of the origins and implications of the relationship between art and technology. Drawing on interviews with Edmonds and primary research in archives of his work the book offers a new contribution to the history of the development of digital art and places Edmonds’ work in the context of contemporary art history. | Generative Systems Art The Work of Ernest Edmonds

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Art and Expression Studies in the Psychology of Art

Art and Expression Studies in the Psychology of Art

Perception of expression distinguishes our cognitive activity in a pervasive significant and peculiar way and manifests itself paradigmatically in the vast world of artistic production. Art and Expression examines the cognitive processes involved in artistic production aesthetic reception understanding and enjoyment. Using a phenomenological theoretical and methodological framework developed by Rudolf Arnheim and other important scholars interested in expressive media Alberto Argenton considers a wide range of artistic works which span the whole arc of the history of western graphic and pictorial art. Argenton analyses the representational strategies of a dynamic and expressive character that can be reduced to basic aspects of perception like obliqueness amodal completion and the bilateral function of contour giving new directions relative to the functioning of cognitive activity. Art and Expression is a monument to the fruitful collaboration of art history and psychology and Argenton has taken great care to construct a meaningful psychological approach to the arts based also on a knowledge of pictorial genres that allows him to systematically situate the works under scrutiny. Art and Expression is an essential resource for postgraduate researchers and scholars interested in visual perception art and gestalt psychology. | Art and Expression Studies in the Psychology of Art

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The Failures of Public Art and Participation

The Failures of Public Art and Participation

This collection of original essays takes a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the theme of failure through the broad spectrum of public art and social practice. The anthology brings together practicing artists curators activists art writers administrators planners and educators from around the world to offer differing perspectives on the many facets of failure in commissioning planning producing evaluating and engaging communities in the continually evolving field of art in the public realm. As such this book offers a survey of currently unexplored and interconnected thinking and provides a much-needed critical voice to the commissioning of public and participatory arts. The volume includes case studies from the UK the US China Cuba and Denmark as well as discussions of digital public art collections. The Failures of Public Art and Participation will be of interest for students and scholars of visual arts design and architecture interested in how art in the public realm fits within social and political contexts.

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The Routledge History of Medieval Magic

The Routledge History of Medieval Magic

The Routledge History of Medieval Magic brings together the work of scholars from across Europe and North America to provide extensive insights into recent developments in the study of medieval magic between c. 1100 and c. 1500. This book covers a wide range of topics including the magical texts which circulated in medieval Europe the attitudes of intellectuals and churchmen to magic the ways in which magic intersected with other aspects of medieval culture and the early witch trials of the fifteenth century. In doing so it offers the reader a detailed look at the impact that magic had within medieval society such as its relationship to gender roles natural philosophy and courtly culture. This is furthered by the book’s interdisciplinary approach containing chapters dedicated to archaeology literature music and visual culture as well as texts and manuscripts. The Routledge History of Medieval Magic also outlines how research on this subject could develop in the future highlighting under-explored subjects unpublished sources and new approaches to the topic. It is the ideal book for both established scholars and students of medieval magic.

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The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art

The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art

The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art surveys a broad spectrum of Christian art produced from the late second to the sixth centuries. The first part of the book opens with a general survey of the subject and then presents fifteen essays that discuss specific media of visual art—catacomb paintings sculpture mosaics gold glass gems reliquaries ceramics icons ivories textiles silver and illuminated manuscripts. Each is written by a noted expert in the field. The second part of the book takes up themes relevant to the study of early Christian art. These seven chapters consider the ritual practices in decorated spaces the emergence of images of Christ’s Passion and miracles the functions of Christian secular portraits the exemplary mosaics of Ravenna the early modern history of Christian art and archaeology studies and further reflection on this field called “early Christian art. ” Each of the volume’s chapters includes photographs of many of the objects discussed plus bibliographic notes and recommendations for further reading. The result is an invaluable introduction to and appraisal of the art that developed out of the spread of Christianity through the late antique world. Undergraduate and graduate students of late classical early Christian and Byzantine culture religion or art will find it an accessible and insightful orientation to the field. Additionally professional academics archivists and curators working in these areas will also find it valuable as a resource for their own research as well as a textbook or reference work for their students.

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Art History: The Basics

Art History: The Basics

Now in its second edition this volume is an accessible introduction to the history of art. Using an international range of examples it provides the reader with a toolkit of concepts ideas and methods relevant to understanding art history. This new edition is fully updated with colour illustrations increased coverage of non-western art and extended discussions of contemporary art theory. It introduces key ideas issues and debates exploring questions such as: What is art and what is meant by art history? What approaches and methodologies are used to interpret and evaluate art? How have ideas regarding medium gender identity and difference informed representation? What perspectives can psychoanalysis semiotics and social art histories bring to the study of the discipline? How are the processes of postcolonialism decolonisation and globalisation changing approaches to art history? Complete with helpful subject summaries a glossary suggestions for future reading and guidance on relevant image archives this book is an ideal starting point for anyone studying art history as well as general readers with an interest in the subject. | Art History: The Basics

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The Art of the Soluble

The Art of the Soluble

First published in 1967 The Art of the Soluble presents collection of essays giving the views of the author on creativity and originality in science and on the logical connections between creative and critical thought. It is also a pioneering study of the ethology of the scientists – of the anatomy of scientific behaviour. Is it true that scientists are detached or dispassionate observers of Nature? What underlies the scientist’s deep concern over the matters of priority? How did a class distinction grow up between pure and applied science? By what criteria do scientists value their own and their colleagues work? Some of the answers grow out of author’s four critical studies of Teilhard de Chardin Arthur Koestler D’Arcy Thompson and Herbert Spencer and the book as whole is knit together by a major essay Hypothesis and Imagination on the nature of scientific reasoning. P. B. Medawar who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960 did not see science as a book-keeping of Nature but on the contrary as the greatest of human adventures. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of philosophy of Science natural science and philosophy in general

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Dreams and Nightmares in Art Therapy The Dream of the Jaguar

Dreams and Nightmares in Art Therapy The Dream of the Jaguar

Dreams and Nightmares in Art Therapy draws on the author’s extensive art psychotherapy practice and teaching to provide a wide range of creative writing and visual art methods for dreamwork. Blending theories such as Gestalt therapy and Jungian psychology with clinical examples from Dr. Hamel’s own clients this unique book offers an array of art therapy and other creative dreamwork methods covering a large variety of media such as mask making clay collage sandtray and painting. The author also presents seven different types of nightmares and introduces a simple and efficient five-steps art therapy method for reducing their intensity and their frequency. The book concludes with a unique synthesis of 11 dreamwork methods to draw wisdom from dream journals accumulated over a long period of time. This book is ideal for anyone interested in developing a personal or professional practice using dream art therapy. The methods presented here will captivate readers with their originality and provide inspiration for all kinds of psychological artistic and spiritual development. | Dreams and Nightmares in Art Therapy The Dream of the Jaguar

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Nietzsche and the Fate of Art

Nietzsche and the Fate of Art

This title was first published in 2002. Challenging the accepted orthodoxy on Nietzsche's views on art this book seeks both to challenge and to establish a new set of concerns as far as discourses on Nietzsche's thoughts on aesthetics are concerned whilst at the same time using such insights to illuminate more central concerns of Nietzsche scholarship such as the will to power the illusion/truth question the eternal return the death of God tragedy Wagner. Following the development of Nietzsche's thoughts on art from his earliest writings to his last Pothen counters traditionally accepted interpretations by suggesting a need to recognize the deep suspicion and at times hostility that Nietzsche displays towards art and the artist throughout his text by emphasising the philosophical arguments underlying this deep suspicion and by viewing this tendency as something deeply connected to the other areas of his thought. Readers with interests in Nietzsche studies aesthetics German philosophy and the philosophy of music will find this a particularly invaluable and distinctive contribution to Nietzsche scholarship. | Nietzsche and the Fate of Art

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Art in the Primary School Creating Art in the Real and Digital World

Art in the Primary School Creating Art in the Real and Digital World

Art in the Primary School is an introductory textbook and a second edition to Teaching Primary Art exploring the underpinning philosophy and pedagogy of teaching and learning art including how and why digital tools and technologies can be integrated. This book considers practical aspects of teaching art focusing on key processes of art making that children might experience in primary schools. It is based around the idea that digital tools and technologies can and should be integrated into the learning and teaching of art exploring: What art is like in the primary school why it should be taught and what is included in the curriculum How learning is planned assessed taught and supported in the classroom Learning about and from artists and how digital technology can be part of the art curriculum Key processes such as drawing painting printmaking collage and textiles working in three dimensions and making digital art Uniquely incorporating the use of digital devices tools and technologies into the subject of art this book will be essential reading for those training to teach and support learning in art in the primary school. | Art in the Primary School Creating Art in the Real and Digital World

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The Science and Art of Dreaming

The Science and Art of Dreaming

The Science and Art of Dreaming is an innovative text that reviews the neuroscience and psychology of how dreams are produced how they are recalled and their relationship to waking life events and concerns of the dreamer. Featuring beautiful original artwork based on dream representations the book delves deeply into what happens when we dream the works of art we produce when asleep and the relevance of dreaming to science art and film. The book examines the biological psychological and social causes of dreaming and includes recent advances in the study of nightmares and lucid dreaming. It shows how sleep can process memories and that dreams may reflect these processes but also that dreams can elicit self-disclosure and empathy when they are shared after waking. The playfulness originality and metaphorical content of dreams also link them to art and especially to the cultural movement that has most valued dreams – Surrealism. The book details the history of scientific research into dreams including a re-reading of the two dreams of Freud’s patient the feminist hero Dora and also the history of Surrealism and of films that draw on dreams and dream-like processes. Each chapter starts with a dream narrative and accompanying painting of the dream to highlight aspects of each of the chapter themes. This highly engaging book will be relevant to researchers students and lecturers in the fields of psychology neuroscience psychoanalysis consciousness and social evolution. It will also be of value within the study and practice of visual art design and film and will be of interest to the general reader and anyone who holds a personal interest in their own dreams.

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Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry Volume 2 The Art of Narrative

Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry Volume 2 The Art of Narrative

Originally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his work - his individual achievement and his place in history - and demonstrates that in both these senses Chaucer is a maker of English poetry. The author explores Chaucer’s narrative art. The book includes an examination of the puzzling question of narrative structure in the Canterbury Tales and of the nature of Chaucerian comedy in these works. The author surveys the major themes of the poems: Fortune and free will marriage and the nobleness of man. In the final chapter she treats of the meaning of Chaucer’s art for his successors. Throughout the work Miss Kean deals extensively with the sources which Chaucer used for the writing of his poems in a way which directs light on the more difficult aspects of his art. | Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry Volume 2 The Art of Narrative

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Rethinking J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

Rethinking J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

The enigmatic character of The Art of Fugue became apparent as early as in its first edition printed more than a year after the composer’s death. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach who published both the first and the second editions raised several unsolved questions regarding this opus. Anatoly P Milka presents a consistent and coherent solution to the unresolved questions about the history structure and appearance of J. S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue opening new perspectives for further exploration of this musical masterpiece. Milka challenges the present scholarly consensus that there exist two different versions of The Art of Fugue (the Autograph and the Original Edition) and argues that Bach had considered four versions of which only two are apparent and have been discussed so far. Only Bach’s illness and death prevented him from fulfilling his plan and publishing a fourth conclusive version of his opus. | Rethinking J. S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

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Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum

Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum

Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum provides new thinking on exhibitions of global art and world art in relation to university museums. Taking The Fowler Museum at UCLA USA as its central subject this edited collection traces how university museum practices have expanded the understanding of the ‘art object’ in recent years. It is argued that the meaning of cultural objects infused with the heritage and identity of ‘global culture’ has been developed substantially through the innovative approaches of university scholars museum curators and administrators since the latter part of the twentieth century. Through exploring the ways in which universities and their museums have overseen changes in the global context for art this edited collection initiates a larger dialogue and inquiry into the value and contribution of the empirical model. The volume includes a full-colour photo essay by Marla C. Berns on the Fowler Museum’s ‘Fowler at Fifty’ project as well as contributions from Donald Preziosi Catherine M. Cole Lothar von Falkenhausen Claire Farago Selma Holo and Gemma Rodrigues. It is important reading for professionals scholars and advanced students alike.

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The Heart of the Matter Music and Art in Family Therapy

The Heart of the Matter Music and Art in Family Therapy

The Heart of the Matter invites therapists from all disciplines to consider the use of music and art in their work with families. It introduces systemic music and art ideas giving clinical examples from practice and a rationale for using each technique. Conversations with therapists who have explored and incorporated the techniques into their work are shared and include both personal and professional responses to incorporating new methods in practice. Through a back drop of exploration into what creativity is the history of the arts in therapy and consideration of what happens when we use words the case for music and art to be part of practice with families is presented. This book is more than a handbook of techniques; it explores who we are as therapists our challenges and our resourcefulness as we operate in multiple systems to bring about positive change. | The Heart of the Matter Music and Art in Family Therapy

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