This post made me want to take a closer look at Rita Felski’s book Uses of Literature (2008). Felski’s intention is to bridge the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Uses of Literature deals with four key elements of the reading experience: recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock. These four recall, as she…
Tag: Alain de Botton
art & affect
continuing my research on the importance of art – RECAPITULATING (Oh, I know – some of you are more than sick and tired of this, if you are amongst the exhausted ones; please visit again later!) Here we go: I went to Alain de Botton, I read his book and visited his exhibition, and even went public…
The Art of Losing Yourself
Participation – What I hoped to find in Alain de Botton’s exhibition in Amsterdam was a new way of introducing art to a general public. A way of communication which didn’t totally ridicule the art in question trough overly simplification, but which would make it possible, also for non-experts, to discover the abundance of art….
WHAT’S THE POINT OF IT?
Ok, by now we all know I really wanted to become a fan of Alain de Botton, but that my inauguration failed. I do not, it turns out, believe that art is therapy. I do believe art can have therapeutic, or palliative qualities, but I do not believe its a good idea to replace my psychoanalyst with a work of…
art is not therapy
Last week I went to Amsterdam to see and review Alain de Botton and John Armstrong’s exhibition “Art is Therapy” at the Rijksmuseum. The immediate result of my trip was a review written and published in the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet. (A weekly, national newspaper focused on culture, politics & arts). For 7 years I have…
«Art is Therapy»
– here is the result from the Norwegian jury; my review of Alain de Botton & John Armstrong’s exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – now on print in Morgenbladet (Norwegian weekly newspaper) (a resume in English will follow tomorrow)
pragmatism
It suddenly struck me that it would probably be interesting to let Art as Therapy meet Art as Experience – DO ANY OF YOU, my dear readers, HAVE EXPERTISE ON JOHN DEWEY’S AESTHETICS? The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art; it is an auxiliary in the process, a difficult…
she stuttered
confused thoughts on art as therapy As already mentioned: I’m not sure about the great therapeutic dimension in/of art, it looks very much like some strained kind of positive thinking … What I forgot to tell you, is that I’m also rather skeptical regarding psychotherapy’s therapeutic ability … I have been working for several yeas as a researcher…
What is art for?
Clarifying By now you all know about my grant (whether you are interested or not…). I was awarded this grant to make an outline for a book very much inspired by Alain de Botton & John Armstrong’s Art as Therapy. Actually my intention is to try to test some of their hypothesis in praxis – not as they do,…
aesthetic perception as a mode of transcendence
You know; I’m interested in figuring out our common, everyday understanding of beauty. I’d like to know how we use and understand the concept beauty in contemporary art. But there is no way around the history of thoughts. We continue, whether we admit it or not, a long historical line of thinking, sometimes by contradicting…
sub rosa 