Lorna Collins

Making Sense (eBook, PDF)

Art Practice and Transformative Therapeutics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472573209
• Artikelnr.: 41349438

Autorenporträt

Lorna Collins is an artist, critic and arts educator based in Cambridge, where she completed her PhD as a Foundation Scholar in French Philosophy, at Jesus College. She was the founder and co-organiser/curator of the trans-disciplinary Making Sense colloquia and co-editor of the series of Making Sense books. She is also the co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Art. Her provocative practice as an artist (in paint, film, installation and performance) drives the motor that lies behind all her existential and epistemological (philosophical) enquiries.

Inhaltsangabe

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