Art and Ritual: A Painter's Journey - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS: NEW BOOK BY STEPHEN NEWTON REVEALS A PAINTER'S PSYCHOLOGY - Beginning with the sensibility of the painter, Stephen Newton illuminates the psychic essence of ritual procedure as practiced universally since the dawn of man's self-consciousness. By drawing on his own radical experience as an abstract painter, Newton excavates the elemental inner processes that are finally manifest in the wider cultural arena. He locates the common roots of art and religion at the hidden source of timeless ritual and its cathartic transforming power. ART & RITUAL will be of interest not only to students of art, anthropology, and the history of mysticism and religion, but also to those interested in the potential that art has to regenerate an individuals' very existence. As the esteemed American art critic Donald Kuspit has said, "This book is truly major."

Illustrated in colour.

Biografía del autor

STEPHEN NEWTON is a painter whose work has been exhibited internationally. His academic career began with a B.A. from Leeds University and an M.A. from Nottingham Trent Univer-sity. He went on to receive an M.A. (Distinction) in Art and Psychotherapy and a Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis and the Creative Process from the University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Politics and Psychoanalysis of Primitivism (Ziggurat Books, London, 1996) and Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001). Stephen Newton is Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, England.