– 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)
Tag: Art as Theraphy
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…
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…