Description
Book SynopsisStunning and occasionally unsettling, this unique portfolio reveals addiction art as a powerful complement to addiction science.
Trade ReviewAddiction and Art is an excellent beginning to creating better awareness and understanding of those struggling to recover from addiction. The book should become required reading for drug abuse awareness programs throughout the country. -- Robyn Oxborrow San Francisco Chronicle 2010 An innovative way to complement the science and research of addiction. addictionblog.org 2010 Addiction and Art is a strange book but, if one of the functions of art is to make us think, then such strangeness works. Wiley Online Library 2010 An important book; recommended for all collections. Library Journal 2011
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Cultivating the Visual Arts to Stimulate Insights into Addiction and Recovery
2. How the Visual Arts Capture the Complexity of Addiction
3. Art Complements Science: A Collection of Addiction Art and Artists' Statements
Epilogue
Appendix A: Addiction Art Advisory Board
Appendix B: "Call to Artists": Method of Gathering Art for This Collection
Notes
Index of Contributing Artists
