Materials & Media in Art Therapy

In art making materials and media are the intermediaries between private ideas thoughts and feelings and their external manifestation in a tangible sensual form. Thus materials provide the core components of the exchange that occurs between art therapists and clients. This book focuses on the sensory-based tangible vocabulary of materials and media and its relevance to art therapy. It provides a historical account of the theory and use of materials and media in art therapy as well as an examination of the interface between art therapy contemporary art materials and practices and social/critical theory. Contributing authors provide examples of how art therapists have transgressed conventional material boundaries and expanded both thinking and practice in the field. The chapters discuss traditional as well as innovative media such as body adornments mail and video art and comic books. Accompanying support material contains media clips as well as 69 color images.