Therapeutic thinking in contemporary art

Marxen, Eva

doi:10.1016/j.aip.2008.10.004

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“…The ability to offer meaningful experiences for individuals of different backgrounds may be regarded as museums’ social value. Marxen (2009) referred to the museum environment as a “potential space” for art therapy, fostering creative expression in “a safe empathic atmosphere” (p. 133). Among others, Hamil, Alter-Muri, McNiff, Marxen, and Salom ( Trent, 1992 ; Fulcheri, 2002 ; Marxen, 2009 ; Salom, 2011 ; Ali and Haen, 2019 ) considered museums as protective places for healing and transformative experiences.…”

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confidence: 99%

Museums and art therapy: A bibliometric analysis of the potential of museum art therapy

Wei

Zhong

2022

Front. Psychol.

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In this paper, the current promotion of art therapy in museum development and the potential value of the combination of museum and art therapy on mental health are explored. Individuals who usually evade any treatment may experience art therapy in a museum setting as a release from their suppressed emotions. Furthermore, art therapy may enable them to discover how to express themselves, thereby reducing anxiety and promoting a sense of social belonging, which may be unattainable in other healing settings. Moreover, this literature review afforded us a preliminary understanding of issues in museum education and art therapy, which require further examination, including implications for China’s museum art therapy in practice and future research directions.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Museums and art therapy: A bibliometric analysis of the potential of museum art therapy

Wei

Zhong

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…This phenomenon of transdisciplinarity or extradisciplinarity of the arts has been conceptualized as the de-definition of art (García Canclini, 2014), de-/re-territorialization of art (Carnevale, 2013), and re-definition of art (Marxen, 2009a(Marxen, , 2009b(Marxen, , 2018; see, for the extradisciplinarity, Holmes, 2007). Contemporary art is able "to combine theoretical, sociological or scientific research with a feel for the ways that aesthetic form can influence collective process, so as to de-normalize the investigation and open up both critical and constructive paths" (Holmes, 2006, p. 411).…”

Section: The Artistic Dispositifmentioning

confidence: 99%

Researching With Poetic and Artistic Dispositifs

Marxen

González

Cortés

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Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This article presents the experience of the workshop Investigar con dispositivos artísticos y poéticos (Researching with poetic and artistic dispositifs), carried out in the special interest group A Day in Spanish and Portuguese (ADISP), in the frame of the Fifteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), in 2019. The goal of this workshop was to show the panorama of the uses and implications of the arts, poetry, and narratives as a methodological strategy in qualitative research. The theoretical framework to development the workshop included the poetic inquiry approach and the artistic dispositif. The experience of the workshop shows the social, political, and critical impact of combining art and poetry. This combination allows researchers to go beyond more traditional research practices such as interviews and ethnographies. We hope to contribute to promote these alternative methodologies in the Latin American researchers’ communities and audiences.

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“…Gestaldo et al explore how personalized place-related memories, particularly those associated with 'home' and safety evoked through memory, narrative and artistic representation, provide migrants with coping strategies beneficial to mental wellbeing. Thus, the pilot created a space for participants to explore imagined landscapes through art, a process the researchers anticipated could have potential benefits for wellbeing (Marxen, 2009;Bingley, 2012). The premise suggests that re-imagined representations of landscape, realized as physical representations as paintings on canvas, can provide participants with a mental and physical place that may be visited in times of stress, and thus contribute to healing.…”

Section: Therapeutic Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%