Cover art for Art as Therapy: Works from the Collection of the NGV
Published
National Gallery Of Victoria, April 2014
ISBN
9780724103881
Format
Softcover, 72 pages
Dimensions
24.3cm × 20cm × 0.7cm

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Renowned philosophers & authors Alain de Botton & John Armstrong explore therapeutic potential of art, contextualise fifty-eight individual or groups of works in NGV collection according to their potential to help & guide us with some of life'severyday problems: work, love, status, self-worth & questions of morality. Armstrong at Uni of Tasmania

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