Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation

by Morgan, Jessica

• ISBN13: 9783882439229
• ISBN10: 388243922X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Examining the complex relationship between art and therapy, Pulsetakes as its starting point the seminal work of Joseph Beuys and Lygia Clark, whose respective artistic practices promoted curative effects. From these pioneers spawns a generation of contemporary artists who consider art as sites for restorative activity: Gretchen Bender and Bill T. Jones, Tania Bruguera, Cai Guo-Qiang, Felix Gonzelez-Torres, Irene and Christine Hohenbuchler, Leonilson, Wolfgang Laib, David Medalla, Ernesto Neto, Hannah Wilke and Richard Yarde. In addition to documentation of these artists' works, Pulseprovides theoretical, historical and critical insight into this subject via essays by Sander Gilman, author of many volumes on the relationship between art, science and medicine; Sandra Alvarez de Toledo, a Paris-based author and curator; Thierry Davila, Curator of Capc, Bordeaux and author of L'Art Medicine; Jessica Morgan, curator of the related exhibition and newly appointed curator at the Tate Modern; and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, professor of African American studies at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Acknowledgements	p. 9
Introduction	p. 12
The Remedy in the Affliction: Joseph Beuys	p. 25
The Therapeutic Relationship: Lygia Clark	p. 37
Art, Healing, and History	p. 44
Ensemble	p. 51
Mojo Hand: History, Healing, and Hoodoo in the Watercolors of Richard Yarde	p. 63
Biographies	p. 75
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