The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person’s Path Through Depression

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The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person’s Path Through Depression

Creative people will experience depression—that’s a given. It’s a given because they are regularly confronted by doubts about the meaningfulness of their efforts. Theirs is a kind of depression that does not respond to pharmaceutical treatment. What’s required is healing in the realm of meaning.

In this groundbreaking book, Eric Maisel teaches creative people how to handle these recurrent crises of meaning and how to successfully manage the anxieties of the creative process. Using examples both from the lives of famous creators such as van Gogh and from his own creativity coaching practice, Maisel explains that despite their inevitable difficulties, creative people possess the ability to forge relationships, repair themselves, and find meaning in their work and their lives. Maisel presents a step-by-step plan to help creative people handle their special brand of depression and rediscover the reasons they are driven to create in the first place.

Customer Review: Simple, profound and totally on the ball
The Van Gogh Blues by Eric Maisel is profoundly insightful and written in a style that offers respectful gentle support along with practical, hands-on instructions for handling the blues along with a good mix of supporting data for those who want to learn more. It’s a gentle, wise resource that should be at the top of the list of resources to share with anyone who gets depressed, at any level, whether they call themselves creative or not. Any thinking person can get depressed and the help in this book can be used by everyone.

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Touch the Art: Make Van Gogh’s Bed (Touch the Art)

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Touch the Art: Make Van Gogh’s Bed (Touch the Art)

Make a big impression with these popular 19th century pieces of art. Tidy-up Van Gogh’s bed. Touch the flowers in Monet’s The Water Lily Pond: Green Harmony. Pull on the tulle tutu of Degas’ Prima Ballerina. Or cuddle the gauzy netting over Berthe Morisot’s The Cradle. Let your fingers do the walking through the Impressionist movement.

Customer Review: Touch the Tutu

This book has it all. Three of the five senses anyway are engaged - sight, sound, and touch.

What do we see?

Art - great art. Masterpieces of Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, and, of course Van Gogh. Each spread introduces a famous canvas. Each one is a feast for young eyes. And older ones too…

What do we feel?

Each reproduction has a tactile area that all will want to touch. Scratchy sandpaper in Cassatt’s Children on the Beach. Silky peach fuzz in Still Life with Peaches and Cherries by Cezanne. And of course a frilly tutu in L’Etoile by Edgar Degas.

What do we hear?

Rhythmic rhymes alongside each painting take us through a day at the beach.

It begins with Van Gogh’s bedroom at Arles -

Wake up!

Good morning sleepy head.

It’s time to make your messy bed.

It ends with The Starry Night, also by Van Gogh.

It’s dark outside.

Stars are shining bright.

Pull up your covers

and say good night!

Courtlynn, age 14 months, gives it a strong endorsement.

Customer Review: these authors are the best for childrens books!
“touch the art series” are some of the best in the market of children’s books and these authors are fabulous. if you love art and would like to pass that love on to your child or grandchild, these are a must. I LOVE THEM!!

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