Materials & Media in Art Therapy: Critical Understandings of Diverse Artistic Vocabularies

by Moon; Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780415993135
• ISBN10: 041599313X
• Edition: DVD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In art making, materials and media are the intermediaries between private ideas, thoughts, and feelings, and their external manifestations in tangible, sensual form. Thus, materials provide the core components of the exchange that occurs between art therapists and clients. This book provides a historial account of the theorizing and use of materials and media in art therapy, as well as an examination of the interface between art therapy, contemporary art materials and practices, and social/critical theory. Attention is paid throughout the text to the cultural implications of materials and media use. Contributing authors provide examples of some of the ways art therapists have transgressed conventional material boundaries and expanded both thinking and practice in the field.

Author Biography

Catherine Hyland Moon, MA, Is Associate Professor and Chair of the Graduate Art Therapy program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been an art therapist since 1980.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
About the Contributors	p. ix
Editor's Note	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Art Therapy Materials and Media: History and Theory	p. 1
A History of Materials and Media in Art Therapy	p. 3
Theorizing Materiality in Art Therapy: Negotiated Meanings	p. 49
Social Remixing: Art Therapy Media in the Digital Age	p. 89
From Artist to Art Therapist: How Art Therapists' Use of Materials, Media, and Practices Informs Their Work As Therapists	p. 101
From Imperfect to I Am Perfect: Reclaiming the Disabled Body Through Making Body Adornments in Art Therapy	p. 103
Groundswell: The Nature and Landscape of Art Therapy	p. 119
Creating a Safe Place for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth: Exhibiting Installation Art for Social Change	p. 137
Fourteen Secrets for a Happy Artist's Life: Using Art and the Internet to Encourage Resilience, Joy, and a Sense of Community	p. 155
Inspired by a Stranger: Exploring Mail Art	p. 183
Materials and Media Applications in art Therapy	p. 197
Technology, Art Therapy, and Psychodynamic Theory: Computer Animation With an Adolescent in Foster Care	p. 199
Bedouin Women's Embroidery as Female Empowerment: Crafts as Culturally Embedded Expression Within Art Therapy	p. 215
Comic Books Connection, and the Artist Identity	p. 231
Video Art and Activism: Applications in Art Therapy	p. 257
Beatmaking: Reaching Beyond Art Therapy to Follow the Creative Path of Music	p. 271
Index	p. 295
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