Author: Lisa Hinz
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 9781846425431
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Book Description
Drawing from Within is an introductory guide for those wanting to explore the use of art with clients with eating disorders. Art therapy is a particularly effective therapeutic intervention for this group, as it allows them to express uncomfortable thoughts and feelings through artistic media rather than having to explain them verbally. Lisa D. Hinz outlines the areas around which the therapist can design effective treatment programmes, covering family influences, body image, self-acceptance, problem solving and spirituality. Each area is discussed in a separate chapter and is accompanied by suggestions for exercises, with advice on materials to use and how to implement them. Case examples show how a therapy programme can be tailored to the individual client and photographs of client artwork illustrate the text throughout. Practical and accessible to practitioners at all levels of experience, this book gives new hope to therapists and other mental health professionals who want to explore the potential of using art with clients with eating disorders.
Author: Nick Meglin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780285635630
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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How can we connect with our own imagination? How can you unleash the artist within? Armed with only his trusty pencil Nick Meglin, a teacher at New York's School of Visual Arts, opens up the joy of drawing as self-expression to everyone. Using honesty and humour Nick Meglin and his daughter, Diane, an experienced counsellor, show how to stop being self-critical about your drawing, just enjoy the process and begin expressing your own creative potential.
Author: Betty Edwards
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 067163514X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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A guide to innovation, invention, imagination, and creativity.
Author: Judith Cornell
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835607568
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Describes the importance of visualization, and suggests eleven techniques to develop one's creativity, inner vision, and self-esteem
Author: Steven Aimone
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781600592812
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Author: Zoe Klein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416599126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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Scorned for agreeing to help an Arab couple excavate allegedly haunted grounds under their house, archaeologist Page Brookstone finds what may be the tomb of the prophet Jeremiah, as well as the remains of a woman, and intriguing scrolls documenting their relationship.
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823252329
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form—of form in its formation, as a formative force, as a birth to form. In this sense, drawing opens less toward its achievement, intention, and accomplishment than toward a finality without end and the infinite renewal of ends, toward lines of sense marked by tracings, suspensions, and permanent interruptions. Recalling that drawing and design were once used interchangeably, Nancy notes that drawing designates a design that remains without project, plan, or intention. His argument offers a way of rethinking a number of historical terms (sketch, draft, outline, plan, mark, notation), which includes rethinking drawing in its graphic,filmic, choreographic, poetic, melodic, and rhythmic senses. If drawing is not reducible to any form of closure, it never resolves a tension specific to itself. Rather, drawing allows the pleasure in and of drawing, the gesture of a desire that remains in excess of all knowledge, to come to appearance. Situating drawing in these terms, Nancy engages a number of texts in which Freud addresses the force of desire in the rapport between aesthetic and sexual pleasure, texts that also turn around questions concerning form in its formation, form as a formative force. Between the sections of the text, Nancy has placed a series of “sketchbooks” on drawing, composed of a broad range of quotations on art from different writers, artists, or philosophers.
Author: Richard McDaniel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Presents a comprehensive survey of the art of drawing, and asserts that drawing is far more than the sum of a work's materials, it is a powerful means of visual exploration.
Author: Gemma Anderson-Tempini
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1783208112
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Book Description
In recent history, the arts and sciences have often been considered opposing fields of study, but a growing trend in drawing research is beginning to bridge this divide. Gemma Anderson’s Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science introduces tested ways in which drawing as a research practice can enhance morphological insight, specifically within the natural sciences, mathematics and art. Inspired and informed by collaboration with contemporary scientists and Goethe’s studies of morphology, as well as the work of artist Paul Klee, this book presents drawing as a means of developing and disseminating knowledge, and of understanding and engaging with the diversity of natural and theoretical forms, such as animal, vegetable, mineral and four dimensional shapes. Anderson shows that drawing can offer a means of scientific discovery and can be integral to the creation of new knowledge in science as well as in the arts.
Author: Peter London
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1570628548
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Making art, says Peter London, is a perfect vehicle for recovering our lost sense of unity with Nature. When we draw closer to Nature through art, we simultaneously draw closer to our Selves, and thereby enjoy a richer, more authentic creativity and a deeper, fuller life. Through exercises, theoretical reflections, poetic meditations, and stories, London presents an innovative approach to creativity that engages body, mind, and spirit. A series of guided "Encounters"—some to be done outdoors, some indoors in the presence of some natural objects, and some entirely in the imagination—invites the reader to investigate Nature's secrets and then to celebrate through making a work of art. Topics and exercises include: the essentials of creative practice, such as time, space, media, and intention; cultivating a simple, firsthand way of seeing Nature in all its subtlety, mystery, and intimacy; creating a personal sanctuary in which to communicate directly with Nature; conducting a sacred conversation with archetypal forms of Nature encountered in the imagination; seeking forgiveness from Nature, with the intention of healing our broken primal relationship with the natural world and rediscovering our rightful place in it.
