Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
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Last update: 02-01-2026
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- Dr. Amy ClimerPacked with research and examples of why art mattersAn excellent book that shares the research on how all types of art, from music to theatre to visual arts, affect all aspects of our lives. If you are ever in doubt that art is worthwhile, this book will show you otherwise. Not only is it worthwhile, but it's critical for us as humans to both make and experience art in various forms.
- Review MasterGreat Read For AllThis book offers insight into the power of the arts and the importance of some form of art in everyday life for promoting health and well being. Must read.
- Donna BartonHow the arts can heal or minds and bodies.Textbook style read, but very interesting. Worth the read to gain scientific understanding of how the brain and body benefit from exposure to the arts and why this is so important in finding peace, self- acceptance, and all types of healing. Recommend.
- JGramIs your Day Pleasant or Dreary ?Who knew..! Interesting concept that the ‘colors’ and ‘designs’ in your day to day view really affect how you function. Yes ! Good easily understood Book.
- Delaware ladyArts for everyoneThis book offers reasons for the arts belonging in school and in therapy. So much good information!
- Leslie A. RubyRead this book!Such a great book! Fond peace, make art!
- RJGood but WORDYI could have learned twice as much with half the words. I wished it had gotten more to the point. I certainly didn’t need all the stories.
- Thomas OppenheimThe Joyous Marriage of the Arts and Science!Your Brain on Art, is is a brilliant book with a good heart, a magnificent mind, and important work to do in the world. In it we witness a wedding between the arts and science. The book announces the consummation of that marriage and celebrates its progeny: health, wellness, community, innovation, empowerment. The book beckons us to join this celebration. To quote from the book “Creative expression, the arts, and aesthetics serve a core purpose: To birth new thoughts, and ideas. To mirror back to one another what is important and what is needed. To weave together common threads of humanity. The arts empower us to reimagine, re-envision, and reconnect in order to create a better future together.” Thanks to this book we now know with scientific certitude what we hitherto only intuited: that the arts heal. Come one come all and join the party! Celebrate Your Brain on Art!