WRITTEN IN FRENCH
In its report of November 11, 2019, the World Health Organization states that art is beneficial for health, both physical and mental. If philosophers were the first to foresee its impact on our existence, their theses are now confirmed by neuroscience, which reveals to us how art sculpts and caresses our brain.
Pierre Lemarquis, accompanied by Boris Cyrulnik invites us to share, through his imaginary museum, his experience of art that heals memory.
In all the cultures of the world, artists bear witness to the fact that art, since its origins, is inseparable from memory: magnificent illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages, fascinating geometric patterns of Islamic art, mysterious lines of Nazca in Peru; these close links between art and memory are also known to Giotto, Botticelli, Michelangelo, without forgetting Vermeer and Dalí.
This work aims to explore and analyze the powers of art on our memory: how does it allow us to take care of it and develop it? How does it help us learn and think better?
Recent developments in neuroscience allow us today to understand its mechanisms. We know that through interaction with the works, through the emotions they arouse, our memory will be stimulated and enriched. And even more so when illness affects us, it is now certain that art supports and heals our failing memories.
And isn't that one of the essential functions of our brain than to remember, to preserve our memory but also that of humanity?
French
192 pages
Éditions Hazan
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