Therapeutic aesthetics : performative encounters in moving image artworks /
Walsh, Maria,
Therapeutic aesthetics : performative encounters in moving image artworks / Maria Walsh. - 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations. - Radical aesthetics-radical art . - Radical aesthetics, radical art. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"In this original book, Maria Walsh contends that neo-liberalism has created a world of precarity, in which human beings are expendable products. Even artists, who believed themselves to be separate from commercialism have found themselves labelled as commodities whose work is marketed for financial gain. In order to process this trauma, Walsh identifies several moving-image artists whose work performs therapeutic techniques such as REBT (Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy) and VRET (Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy) that allows viewers to acknowledge and surmount the cases of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder that precarity has wrought upon modern life"--
9781350093140 1350093149
Art therapy.
Mental health personnel in motion pictures.
Art therapy.
Electronic books.
RC489.A7 / W37 2021eb
615.8/5156
Therapeutic aesthetics : performative encounters in moving image artworks / Maria Walsh. - 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations. - Radical aesthetics-radical art . - Radical aesthetics, radical art. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"In this original book, Maria Walsh contends that neo-liberalism has created a world of precarity, in which human beings are expendable products. Even artists, who believed themselves to be separate from commercialism have found themselves labelled as commodities whose work is marketed for financial gain. In order to process this trauma, Walsh identifies several moving-image artists whose work performs therapeutic techniques such as REBT (Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy) and VRET (Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy) that allows viewers to acknowledge and surmount the cases of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder that precarity has wrought upon modern life"--
9781350093140 1350093149
Art therapy.
Mental health personnel in motion pictures.
Art therapy.
Electronic books.
RC489.A7 / W37 2021eb
615.8/5156