Making Sense : Beauty, Creativity, and Healing.
Title:
Making Sense : Beauty, Creativity, and Healing.
Author:
Lee, Bandy.
ISBN:
9781453913451
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Edition:
0
Physical Description:
1 online resource (278 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue (Thomas Duffy, Nancy Olson) -- Introduction (Bandy Lee) -- Beauty -- Beauty and the Pact of Aliveness (Elaine Scarry) -- Beauty, Longing, and Fear (Katy Martin, Linda Cummings) -- Thoughts on the Colloquium on Beauty (Kate St. Amand) -- Extraterrestrial Beauty: Science of the Sun (Leon Golub) -- Moon Poems (Frank O'Cain) -- From the 'Full Moon' to the 'Subservient Sun': Expressions of Beauty and Creativity in Persian Poetry and Calligraphy (Elaheh Kheirandish, Hormoz Goodarzy) -- Beauty and the Experience of Creation (Florian Forestier) -- Creativity -- Writing Trauma: Narrative Catharsis in Homer, Shakespeare, and Joyce (Richard Kearney) -- The Power of Art: Refiguring Pain (Anne Bernard Kearney, Simone Kearney) -- From the Battlefield (Kofi George) -- The Beauty of Hangeul Calligraphy (Yoo Sung (Aram) Lee, Xéna Lee) -- A Vocation for Light (Anne Davenport) -- A Day Before Painting (Frank O'Cain) -- Making Sense of Making Sense: Healing Hands (Janice Perry) -- Healing -- Art and Beauty (Rosalyn Cama) -- Birthright: Nature as a Source for Human Healing (Stephen R. Kellert) -- Neural Proxies: Designing Environments that Can Heal (Brandon Cuffy) -- Theater, Creativity, and Therapy (Gabriele Sofia) -- On Jean Frémiot and His Photographic Work with Adolescents (Lorna Collins) -- Creativity and Innovation in the Fight to Restore Justice to All (Sunny Schwartz) -- Socially Engaged Art and the Mechanics of Civic Life (Ruth Morgan) -- Early Childhood for Adults: Ways Back to Creativity, Beauty, and Possibly Healing (Sean Kernan) -- Mandalas as Spiritual Medicine (Evie Lindemann) -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Regardless of field, from the art world to healthcare delivery, there is a growing need for practically useful theory and theoretically informed practice. The time is ripe for a collaborative, creative conversation among thinkers and doers who are concerned about the larger world and our role in it. <I>Making Sense: Beauty, Creativity, and Healing</I> is a collection of essays and creative expressions written and produced in relation to a colloquium that tried to address these matters at the Whitney Humanities Center of Yale University. Beginning with a powerful essay on the individually and globally therapeutic qualities of art and beauty by Elaine Scarry of Harvard University, this volume brings together a diversity of theoretically minded scholars, scientists, artists, and healers. In the form of critical and reflective essays, alongside images, poetry, and fiction, this book allows the reader to experience the bursts of ideas and sensory triggers that respond to and extend the artistic installations and performances of the colloquium - and welcomes the reader into the conversation.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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