Art as Therapy

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Call Number: 701.18 De
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	701.18 De	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Includes index.
Methodology. The seven functions of art ; What is the point of art? ; What counts as good art? ; What kind of art should one make? ; How should art be bought and sold? ; How should we study art? ; How should art be displayed? -- Love. Can we get better at love? ; What is it like to be a good lover? ; Attention to detail ; Am I allowed to be turned on? ; How to make love last ; Courage for the journey -- Nature. Remembering nature ; The importance of the South ; Anticipating autumn ; The sense of what is beautiful ; The new artists of nature -- Money. Art as a guide to the reform of capitalism ; The problem of taste ; The role of the critic in the education of taste ; Towards and enlightened capitalism ; Enlightened investment ; Career advice from artists -- Politics. What should political art be aiming at? ; What is there to be proud of? ; Who should we try to become? ; A defence of censorship ; And now... to change the world.
Describes a new way of looking at familiar masterpieces, suggesting that the works of art can be useful, relevant--and even therapeutic.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

a new critical perspective we've been waiting for submitted by grubbg on June 14, 2015, 11:38am de Botton brings his accessible, pragmatic, curious style to bear on this big subject: Art! Why do we need it? How should we show it? What purpose does it serve? I loved this book. It finally affirmed the use I've been putting art and literature to my whole life yet--as a way to help myself and a way to get through difficulty. de Botton proposes we include this new rubric into the academic, museum, and gallery guides to art. I agree.

x submitted by kscapellie on July 12, 2020, 7:39pm arts used in therapy