Modernism, Art, Therapy

Hudson, Suzanne; Sheehan, Tanya

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Suzanne Hudson (Editor), Tanya Sheehan (Editor)

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A new transnational history of modernist art that connects discourses on art as therapy to questions of gender, disability, race, and the politics of care

In an innovative collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, Modernism, Art, Therapy explores relationships between clinically derived art therapies and the modernisms that developed transnationally in visual arts across the twentieth century. Through sites of practice such as hospitals, clinics, and prisons—but also schools, art museums, and galleries—the book puts art history into conversation with critical medical and health humanities, disability studies, critical race studies, and gender and sexuality studies. Committed to exploring questions of agency and social justice, contributors to the book attend to traditionally marginalized subjects and makers, from children and the incarcerated to women artists, therapists, and care workers. The volume thus aims not only to expand the category of masterworks that art historians deem meaningful but also to expose the limitations of dominant narratives about modernism.

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Author

Suzanne Hudson (Editor), Tanya Sheehan (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

EISBN 9780300269482

Illustrations 94

Print Status in print

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List of illustrations

A fat, black hippopotamus ‘with a Thing in Front’ behind bars
Painting of a brown dog
Untitled
Untitled
Edith Kramer with her students at the Wiltwyck School
Rest Movement/Unity Multiplicity
Girl Drawing II
Untitled drawing
Composition after Vermeer’s Girl with a Wine Glass
Landscape with Three Houses
Self-Portrait with Hand
Vision in Motion, cover
Better Than Before: sensory therapy training course created by Moholy Nagy
Frame enlargement from Design Workshops film made by Moholy-Nagy
Arts in Therapy, cover
Charts disclosing the structure of James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake
Slapping exercise
Pocket Book Piece
Cartoon of daily interaction at Constance Lerner’s Psychotheology Center
Stay Wait Look Listen
Notebook for Stop Wait Look Listen, detail
Notebook for Stop Wait Look Listen, detail
Invitation to the exhibition Lygia Clark Buraco Negro, Galeria Paulo Klabin
Installation view of exhibition Lygia Clark Buraco Negro, Galeria Paulo Klabin
Structuring of the Self
Structuring of the Self
Structuring of the Self
Paul Keeler and David Medalla in interaction with Lygia Clark’s Bichos (1960) at Signals Gallery
Sam Francis drawing at Fort Miley Hospital, San Francisco
William S. Rubin and Frank Stella during the installation of the exhibition Frank Stella
Sam Francis in the Tiefenauspital in Bern, Switzerland
Untitled
Also Violet
Zeichnung
Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, cover
Recreation in Harlem
Recreation in Harlem, detail of restored mural
Students working on art projects, soap models in foreground, Harlem Art Workshop
Girl by a Window
Church Scene
Portrait of My Mother
Marginal, Marginal
Untitled [self portrait]
Janela (Window)
Emydgio de Barros [foreground], Adelina Gomes [background], and Fernando Diniz [middle ground] in the Engenho de Dentro garden
Untitled
A menina do sapato (Girl with a Shoe)
Homenagem a Paul Klee (Homage to Paul Klee)
Máscara africana (African Mask)
Patients at the Juquery Psychiatric Hospital
Prof. Mário Yahn and Maria Leontina
Patient [João Rubens Neves Garcia] of the Juquery Psychiatric Hospital
Patient [Aurora Cursino dos Santos] of the Juquery Psychiatric Hospital
Illustrations from “A arte ‘ingênua,’” by José Geraldo Vieira
Hilde Weber and Her Work
Patients view an art lesson televised on closed circuit
Psychiatry television studio
Still from TV as a Creative Medium
Wipe Cycle, 1969
Frank Gillette, Terraquae (exhibition)
Talking with Whitman
John O’Reilly and James Tellin in Spain
John O’Reilly in His Studio, 1168 Grafton Street, Worcester, Massachusetts
As a Drunken Satyr
Before 3 Syndics
A Portrait of John O’Reilly
The Red Madras Headdress
Le Luxe II
Young Sailor I
Young Sailor II
Parody of the Fauve Painters
Henri Matisse at home in Vence
Self-Portrait
Lucienne Bloch painting "The Cycle of a Woman’s Life" at the Women’s House of Detention, New York
Childhood, from The Cycle of a Woman’s Life
Negro Playground
View of "Childhood" in the recreation room of the Women’s House of Detention, New York
Incarcerated woman viewing "Childhood" by Lucienne Bloch
For the Women’s House
D. P. Children at the Museum of Modern Art
D. P. Children at the Museum of Modern Art
Untitled (night landscape)
Untitled (day landscape)
Untitled (desert)
Untitled (clothing)
Installation view of the exhibition Art for War Veterans, September 26–November 25, 1945
Walnut turn-top table
Cabinet made by a veteran in a woodworking design class at the War Veterans’ Art Center
Directions for Preparing a Piano
Excerpt from Lawrence Weiner, Statements
Argon [from a Measured Volume to Indefinite Expansion]
A and B Represent Points Located 1,000,000,000 Miles behind the Picture Plane
Wall Drawing #85
Chimney Piece

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