Art as Therapy
by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong
Buy on AmazonRenowned philosophers & authors Alain de Botton & John Armstrong explore the therapeutic potential of art, contextualise fifty eight individual or groups of works in the NGV collection according to their potential to help & guide us with some of life's everyday problems: work, love, status, self worth & questions of morality.
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"Their basic proposition is that, far more than mere aesthetic indulgence, art is a tool — a tool that serves a rather complex yet straightforwardly important purpose in our existence:"
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