Word: kineticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Draw a picture of everyone in your family doing something." Those are the simple instructions that Psychiatrist S. Harvard Kaufman and Psychologist Robert C. Burns give to children sent to them for treatment. In their new book, Kinetic Family Drawings (Brunner/Mazel; $8.95) the two therapists show some of the kinetic...
The idea of evaluating the intellectual and emotional makeup of a child by analyzing his drawings did not originate with Kaufman and Burns. Ever since the 1920s, psychologists have been measuring intelligence by asking children to draw a person (the D-A-P test). For the past two decades, clues...
"The ironing-board syndrome" is also a familiar motif in kinetic family drawings. Kaufman and Burns think it may represent the heat of mother love, longed for but dangerous. In what some therapists will consider a farfetched interpretation, the authors attribute the X shape of the ironing board's...
The kind of art Rachel bas-Cohain creates is kinetic; she calls it "air, fluids, light in motion exhibited as sculpture."
The company is kept alive and kicking largely because of the talent-spotting skills of its founding artistic director, Seattle-born Robert Joffrey, 39. Widely regarded as one of the best teachers and coaches in the U.S., Joffrey has a knack for signing up promising unknowns and guiding them to...