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Zusatztext "A fundamental theme of this book is the growing interest from the social sciences and humanities in including art (in all its manifestations) as a way to enhance research methodologies and configure social action strategies that allow a critical commitment to counter hegemonic discourses. […] Art is transformed into a social space of social experimentation, where the social is transformed into a field of research, allowing not only research and creation, but also sociocultural change. […] Thiskind ofartistic experience allows for a form of social resistance that challenges dominant discourses and narratives,where the self and the mind are seen as facts in which the person is isolated from themselves, from their social relationships, andfrom life itself."-- Luis Felipe González Gutiérrez, Psychology Professor, University Santo Tomás, Bogotá, Colombia"With Deinstitutionalizing Art of the Nomadic Museum: Practicing and Theorising Critical Art Therapy with Adolescents, Marxen invites the reader to understand the sociohistorical efforts that were made interdisciplinarily in anthropology, psychiatry, philosophy, and political science to deinstitutionalise the instrumentalization of art and the psychiatric establishment through rigorous scholarship, creativity, and persistence." -- Tomoyo Kawano, Associate Professor/Program Director of Dance/Movement Therapy, Antioch University, USA"This important work by Eva Marxen transcends the boundaries of art therapy. Her transdisciplinary approach is the faithful reflection of the author's solid academic, epistemological, and therapeutic training. It shows an anthropological, psychoanalytic, political-philosophical, art critical, artistic, and art therapeutic perspective. […] As an artist and art therapist, I felt interpellated by her position regarding the prominence that the artistic and art therapeutic device must have in society as an emancipating and transforming tool of individual and collective subjectivity. […] According to the author, art is crucial, since it offers epistemological experiences that can influence collective processes. […] Eva Marxen's book invites us to question the coventional,the expected, and the things one should know how to do. It prompts us to become active agents, the protagonists of our journeys, in control of our own destinations, and as artists capable of creating new subjectivities and 'counter-devices' that free us from hegemonic powers."-- Estela Garber, Art Therapist and Artist, Center of Psychotherapy Studies, Buenos Aires, Argentina Informationen zum Autor Eva Marxen is Assistant Professor of Art Therapy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US. Zusammenfassung Deinstitutionalizing Art of the Nomadic Museum explores the possibility of the "nomadic museum" to facilitate social and political resistance through engagement with critical art practices and imagery. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1) Introduction: Art and the political exercise of thinking 2) Beyond the walls: Art therapy applied to adolescents with challenging behaviors and the museum 3) Spaces beyond hegemony: Gramsci and a critical review on psychopathology and art 4) The nomadic museum: Arts and subjectivities 5) Critical art, co-options, resistance, and the museum 6) Deinstitutionalizing and rearticulating art and psychiatry ...
