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Recommended Books on Spirituality, Healing and Art
Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily
Kandinsky :Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential
painters of the twentieth century, and this text, in which he laid out
the tenets of painting as he saw them and made the case for nonobjective
artistic forms, is universally recognized as an essential document of
Modernist art theory. A brilliant philosophical treatise and an emphatic
avant-garde tract, it provides the theoretical underpinnings for Kandinsky's
own work and that of his associates in the Blaue Reiter movement. While
Michael Sadler's masterful translation has been available and authoritative
since its original publication in 1914, what hasn't been published until
now is the significant correspondence between the translator and the
artist, who followed the progress of his book's transformation closely,
and who offered numerous insights into and explanations of its meanings.
These letters, from the archives of Tate Britain, have here been appended
to Kandinsky's text to provide the first comprehensively annotated edition
of this seminal work. This volume, which supersedes any previous edition,
includes the letters, Kandinsky's prefaces and prose poems relating
to the period in which the book was written and Sadler's selected writings
on art. It is more than an expanded edition--it is a major event, the
first full account of a remarkable literary collaboration.
Reader review:
5 star!
Spirit
Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art (Paperback) by
Nancy J. Azara
Reader review: 4.5 star.
Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Ar, February
7, 2004
By Melissa Wolf, Women's Studio Center (New York, NY) As the Executive
Director of Women's Studio Center I find this book to be a great boon
to artists and those thinking about becoming an artist. It has elements
of "The Artists Way" with more substance and some biographical
details.
Nancy Azara was the Director of the New York Feminist Art Institute,
a wonderful women's art organization that closed in 1990. She taught
a class "Visual Diaries" which included elements of consciousness
raising and art or creating an "artists book". I think her
ideas and exercises come from this class.
It's a wonderful creative motivator !
Drawing from Within: Using Art to Treat Eating
Disorders (Paperback) by Lisa D. Hinz
Reader review: 5 star.
It's the hands-on application of theory to results which makes DRAWING
FROM WITHIN so essential, by Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA):
'Drawing from Within: Using Art to Treat Eating Disorders is a fine
reference for practitioner who wish to explore the therapeutic use of
art with clients with eating disorders. Art therapy has been successfully
used as intervention with this client group: chapters cover themes which
can embrace programs, offering suggestions for creating and implementing
exercises and translating results to therapy. It's the hands-on application
of theory to results which makes DRAWING FROM WITHIN so essential for
any working with clients with eating disorders - and for college-level
libraries strong in psychology.'
The
Sacred Art of Soul Making (Paperback) by Joseph Naft
"The Sacred Art of Soul Making" offers an authentic and substantive
spirituality for our time, one that leads the reader toward understanding
the structure of the soul and its development through meditation, prayer,
presence, and other practices. This book addresses the important questions
of soul and spirit with the depth and subtlety they require and with
the clarity they call for. Joseph Naft presents an integrated spiritual
path that begins where we are and ultimately takes us beyond consciousness,
toward the abode of the sacred. That sacredness can touch and transform
each of us, if we make the necessary, devoted effort. And "The
Sacred Art of Soul Making" shows the way toward that potential.
Reader review: 5 star
Art and Soul
This book is written as a conversation and full of real life examples
of what art therapy is, what it can do for an individual and how art
IS therapy. This book is good reading, not just for those in the field
or contemplating the field of art therapy, but is also a wonderful read
for ANY artist. It affirms the connection of Art and Soul. This is an
easy and enjoyable read. And it's a book that can be read over and over
again.
