Rachel Cohen

Outsider Art and Art Therapy

Shared Histories, Current Issues, and Future Identities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781785927393
• ISBN-10: 1785927396
• Artikelnr.: 47132485

Autorenporträt

Rachel Cohen is an art therapist based in New York. She is a graduate of Pratt Institute's art therapy program and previously worked as Program Coordinator/Art Therapist at LAND Gallery, a studio and gallery for artists with developmental disabilities in Brooklyn. Rachel promotes the work of non-traditional creators through her advisory service, NAPlabs, and is currently an educator at the Museum of Modern Art.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Outsider Art and Art Therapy: Shared Histories
in Mental Health. 3. Outsider Art and Art Therapy: Shared Histories in Art.
4. Contemporary Issues of Definition and Terminology: Art Therapy. 5.
Contemporary Issues of Definition and Terminology: Outsider Art. 6.
Continuums of Meaning.