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Author Cohen, Rachel, author.

Title Outsider art and art therapy : shared histories, current issues and future identities / Rachel Cohen
Published London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations
Series Online access with DDA: Askews (Medicine)
Contents Outsider Art and Art Therapy: Shared Histories, Current Issues, and Future Identities by Rachel Cohen; List of Images; Color Plates; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Shared Histories in Mental Health; Chapter 2. Shared Histories in Art; Chapter 3. Contemporary Issues of Definition and Terminology: Art Therapy; Chapter 4. Contemporary Issues of Definition and Terminology: Outsider Art; Chapter 5: Continuums of Meaning; References; Subject Index; Author Index; List of Images; Introduction; Figure 1.1. Menu, Kenya Hanley, 2016. Credit: The artist and LAND Gallery. (Color Plate 1)
Figure 1.2. Barn, Linda Haskell, 2016. Credit: The artist and Pyramid Inc. Figure 1.3. Future HouseBoatShip, Garrol Gayden, 2010. Credit: The artist and LAND Gallery.; Shared Histories in Mental Health; Figure 1.1. St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.; Figure 1.2. Pinel freeing the insane from their chains (at la Salpêtrière). Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876. Credit: Wellcome Library, London
Figure 1.3. "Aquarelle décorative" from Marcel Réja, L'Art chez les Fous, 1907, fig. 13. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Figure 1.4. "Aquarelle décorative: Chaos de lignes et de couleurs" from Marcel Réja, L'Art chez les Fous, 1907, fig. 12. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.; Figure 1.5 "Religious Scene," Peter Moog. From Hans Prinzhorn, Bildnerei der Geisteskranken, 1923. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.; Shared Histories in Art
Figure 2.1 An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle whilst two attendants attach chains to his legs they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1735. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. ; Figure 2.2 The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, William Blake, c. 1799-1800. Watercolor, pen, and black ink over graphite. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1914, www.metmuseum.org
Summary This book explores the intersection of outsider art, traditionally the work of psychiatric patients, offenders and minority groups, and art therapy. It focuses on their shared histories of art created in psychiatric care in order to help to clarify how each field is defined and identified today
Notes Figure 2.3 Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben-Chimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters, Eugène Delacroix, 1832. Watercolor over graphite on wove paper. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971, www.metmuseum.org. Figure 2.4 Delightful Land, Paul Gauguin, 1893-1894. Woodcut on china paper. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1921, www.metmuseum.org
Figure 2.5 Collection André Breton et Paul Eluard, Sculptures d'Afrique, d'Amérique, d'Océanie, Auction catalogue, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 23 July 1931, Pl. VII. fig. 58: "Dukduk" mask, British New Guinea, fig. 97: Mask, head of fantastic animal, New Brit
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Art therapy.
Outsider art.
Art Therapy -- trends
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Art Therapy
art therapy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Art therapy
Outsider art
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781784504694
1784504696