Art sociology about the feeling of difficulty to live in modern society

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530607
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Kyoto University of Art and Design
• Principal Investigator: FUJISAWA Mika 京都造形芸術大学, 芸術学部, 教授 (00259425)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 生きづらさ / 芸術療法 / アートセラピー / 摂食障害 / 精神科病院 / アールブリュット / アウトサイダーアート / セルフドキュメンタリー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the modern society, many people, especially young people are suffering from 'the feeling of difficulty to live’. Some of them are suffering from mental diseases and others are suffering persecutions of domestic, sexual abuse, or of bullying at school. These people tend to attempt suicide to present a variety of psychological symptoms.
But we found that these people become take back the desire to live by such various art behavior as painting, music, performance,video,and moreover,by getting sympathy from others for the representation of the result of their art-behavior, they become even full of lives. I have conducted survey from the perspectives of art sociology how these people become freed from these suffering feeling by various art behavior and even taken back the desire to live.

Free Research Field

社会学