Outsider art and art therapy: shared histories, current issues and future identities

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Outsider Art and Art Therapy: Shared Histories, Current Issues, and Future Identities by Rachel Cohen; List of Images; Color Plates; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Shared Histories in Mental Health; Chapter 2. Shared Histories in Art; Chapter 3. Contemporary Issues of Definition and Terminology: Art Therapy; Chapter 4. Contemporary Issues of Definition and Terminology: Outsider Art; Chapter 5: Continuums of Meaning; References; Subject Index; Author Index; List of Images; Introduction; Figure 1.1. Menu, Kenya Hanley, 2016. Credit: The artist and LAND Gallery. (Color Plate 1).;This book explores the intersection of outsider art, traditionally the work of psychiatric patients, offenders and minority groups, and art therapy. It focuses on their shared histories of art created in psychiatric care in order to help to clarify how each field is defined and identified today. Outsider Art and Art Therapy: Shared Histories, Current Issues, and Future Identities by Rachel Cohen List of Images Color Plates Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Shared Histories in Mental Health Chapter 2. Shared Histories in Art Chapter 3. Contemporary Issues of Definition and Terminology: Art Therapy Chapter 4. Contemporary Issues of Definition and Terminology: Outsider Art Chapter 5: Continuums of Meaning References Subject Index Author Index List of Images Introduction Figure 1.1. Menu, Kenya Hanley, 2016. Credit: The artist and LAND Gallery. (Color Plate 1). Figure 1.2. Barn, Linda Haskell, 2016. Credit: The artist and Pyramid Inc. Figure 1.3. Future HouseBoatShip, Garrol Gayden, 2010. Credit: The artist and LAND Gallery. Shared Histories in Mental Health Figure 1.1. St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Figure 1.2. Pinel freeing the insane from their chains (at la Salpêtrière). Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Figure 1.3. "Aquarelle décorative" from Marcel Réja, L'Art chez les Fous, 1907, fig. 13. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Figure 1.4. "Aquarelle décorative: Chaos de lignes et de couleurs" from Marcel Réja, L'Art chez les Fous, 1907, fig. 12. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Figure 1.5 "Religious Scene," Peter Moog. From Hans Prinzhorn, Bildnerei der Geisteskranken, 1923. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Shared Histories in Art. Figure 2.1 An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle whilst two attendants attach chains to his legs they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1735. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Figure 2.2 The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, William Blake, c. 1799-1800. Watercolor, pen, and black ink over graphite. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1914, www.metmuseum.org.