Pulse Art Healing and Transformation Author:Sandra Alvarez de Toledo, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Sander Gilman, Thierry Davila, Gretchen Bender, Tania Bruguera, Lygia Clark, Christine Hohenbuchler, Irene Hohenbuchler, Bill Jones, Leonilson, David Medalla, Richard Yarde, Joseph Beuys, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cai Guo-Qiang, Wolfgang Laib, Hannah Wilke, Jessica Morgan Examining the complex relationship between art and therapy, Pulse takes as its starting point the seminal work of Joseph Beuys and Lygia Clark, whose respective artistic practices promoted curative effects. From these pioneers spawns a generation of contemporary artists who consider art as sites for restorative activity: Gretchen Bender and Bill... more » T. Jones, Tania Bruguera, Cai Guo-Qiang, Felix Gonzelez-Torres, Irene and Christine Hohenbchler, Leonilson, Wolfgang Laib, David Medalla, Ernesto Neto, Hannah Wilke and Richard Yarde. In addition to documentation of these artists' works, Pulse provides theoretical, historical and critical insight into this subject via essays by Sander Gilman, author of many volumes on the relationship between art, science and medicine; Sandra Alvarez de Toledo, a Paris-based author and curator; Thierry Davila, Curator of capc, Bordeaux and author of L'Art Madicine; Jessica Morgan, curator of the related exhibition and newly appointed curator at the Tate Modern; and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, professor of African American studies at Harvard University.« less