Art in health and identity

Visual narratives of older Chinese immigrants to New Zealand

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12917201
AutoresWendy W Li (0000-0002-0056-6130, University of Waikato, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen4
Número2
Páginas109-123
Fecha de publicación2011-09-22
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArts & Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1753-3015 • E-ISSN: 1753-3023
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17533015.2011.584886
OpenAlexW2015899313
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas40

This paper explores older Chinese immigrants visual narratives on the value and impact of paintings beyond aesthetic merit and the role art plays in their health, wellbeing and identity construction. Immigration to a new culture in old age gives rise to experiences of biographical disruption and status-discrepancy, which often invokes isolation, anxiety, and a sense of dislocation and loss. Findings reveal that art-making aids the participants in addressing biographical disruption and status-discrepancy and appreciating the richness of multiplicities of the self. Art also positively influences the participants health and wellbeing when they live in a new culture in their later lives

Acculturation · Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music · Immigration · Interview · Isolation (microbiology · Narrative · Sociology · Anthropology · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Empathy and Medical Education · Gender Studies · History · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology