Book + Art
A Mash-Up for Art and Book Lovers!
Read the featured book in advance, then join other guests, Museum and Library staff for a lively book discussion and talk on a related artwork.
Reserve a copy of the book at www.pbclibrary.org
Book + Art: Art as Therapy
Friday, January 8 / 2PM-3PM
Friday, January 8 / 2pm
Book: Alain de Botton and John Armstrong, Art as Therapy (2013)
Art: Artworks in the special exhibition Art Finds a Way
“The purpose of the book “Art as Therapy” … is to introduce a new method of interpreting art: art as a form of therapy. It’s the authors’ contention that certain art works provide powerful solutions to our problems, but that in order for this potential to be released, the audience’s attention has to be directed towards it in a new way (which they demonstrate), rather than towards the more normal historical or stylistic concerns with which art books and museum captions are traditionally associated.” - Dimitris Lempesis, dreamideamachine.com
How can artworks in the Norton Museum of Art collection relate to themes in this book? Participants will examine different works, including Super Blue Omo, 2016, by Njideka Akunyili Crosby (Nigerian, born 1983).
Alain de Botton and John Armstrong, Art as Therapy (2013)
This program is a partnership with the Palm Beach County Library System.