Brimming with upbeat guidance this accessible handbook shows how anyone can use art to enlighten uplift calm and ease stress and anxieties Visual art is enlightening challenging informative and arresting but it can also be therapeutic reducing anxiety and stress levels and offering perspective on the challenges that we all face in our lives This guide introduces readers to new ways of looking at a wide range of art Through careful examination and explanation it investigates how engaging with art and drawing upon its ideas can help everyone feel connected and inspired From Frida Kahlo confronting her anxieties to Henri Matisse embracing happiness from Louise Bourgeois conquering fear to Auguste Rodin finding hope it shows how you too can use art to work through difficult emotions and improve your mental wellbeing Even art that unsettles can help us to think and feel differently Artists have been conveying aspirations emotions ideas and stories for thousands of years this book will help everyone to read these messages and thereby to enrich their own emotional life through art
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Thames And Hudson Ltd
ISBN: 9780500024935
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 192
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 28/04/2022
Año de edición: 2022
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Escrito por Susie Hodge
Susie Hodge es historiadora del arte por la Universidad de Londres y autora de más de 50 libros. Es también miembro de la Royal Society of Arts.