La narratrice, Kimi, évoque ses liens avec sa grand-mère Sobo, qui lui apprenait à broder des motifs pour des kimonos. Au décès de son aïeule, Kimi décide de prendre son destin en main. Un album qui aborde les thèmes de la transmission d'un savoir et de la perte d'un proche.

L'arbre de sobo

The book you are holding is out of the ordinary. Art book or a clinical manual for psychiatry describing bipolarity, it is both of these and neither at the same time. Bipolar disorder or manic-depressive illness is a mood disorder by which persons are afflicted in cyclic episodes. During these episodes, the patients' affects, thoughts and motor activity are modified in every area of their mental and relational life. An illness of extremes in mania and depression, bipolar disorder deeply changes, for the patients, their immediate experience. The aim of his work is to describe some of these experiences. Its originality is to attempt to do so by using art works as a mediator, in themselves and independently from the mental life of the artists who created them. Readers are thus solicited by the text, of course, which attempts to help them understand the patients' mental world, but also by the emotions they will be made to feel by the works that are presented. These are therefore not direct illustrations of the patients' psychological states: they help to perceive them as a whole, from both a sensitive and an intellectual point of view. A psychiatrist and two art specialists joined to provide this dual view on the subjective experience of a patient. The emotion inspired by the works reproduced and commented on her will enable clinicians to gain a better understanding of the mental life of their patients. Patients will also be able to understand part of their experience of the disorder, as reflected in the works. Finally, this book, as beautiful as it is educational, is not exclusively reserved for psychiatrists and patients. It proposes a double reading, sensitive and scholarly, in a text that is accessible to the broadest audience. The patients' familiar circles and art amateurs will discover in it both a fine analysis and a singular view on mental life and on a number of works of art.

Journey into the Heart of Bipolarity - An Artistic Point of View

Mon Petit Picasso

Zadkine : Des mains pour créer

Du petit garçon rêveur à l'artiste reconnu du monde entier, petit portrait en coin d'Auguste Rodin. Partons ensemble à la rencontre du jeune homme doux dont le grand bonheur était de pétrir la terre, du marchand émerveillé qui, un jour, partit à pied pour l'Italie, du travailleur passionné qui aimait sculpter 
Feuilletons ses carnets de croquis, observons ses belles mains de créateur, découvrons ses collections étonnantes... pour le plaisir.

Rodin Sculpteur

Mon petit Matisse

Miriam, mafou métisse

C comme Cézanne

Vovô Dembo é um africano muito alto e muito sábio. Para o pequeno Chaka, ele tem o tamanho do baobá - árvore que alcança vinte metros de altura - e a sabedoria dos marabus - sacerdotes venerados pela religião muçulmana. É vovô Dembo quem conta ao neto Chaka a história da África, da sua África: a infância pobre numa família de catorze irmãos, o pastoreio das cabras, as pescarias no rio barrento, as festas, as comidas, as plantações de amendoim e batata-doce. Com pinceladas sensíveis, um verbo saboroso e poético, vovô Dembo fala dos espíritos que se escondem na selva entre os macacos e os elefantes, narra a chegada da chuva, quando os pingos enormes batem na terra esturricada e a tempestade é um bálsamo que revigora a vida.Chaka logo percebe que vovô Dembo, com sua imaginação entre o plausível e o mágico, faz um retrato em que se sobrepõem duas histórias, a dele mesmo e a do continente mais antigo e mais pobre do planeta. A África, meu pequeno Chaka.... reata com a tradição africana do contador de histórias, figura central de um mundo sem livros e sem escolas, e a quem cabe transmitir a saga da família, da aldeia, de seu povo, fundindo a memória pessoal com a coletiva. As delicadas ilustrações de Marion Lesage alternam-se com a reprodução de objetos tradicionais da África, instrumentos de música e estatuetas, e o texto de Marie Sellier transmite um olhar inteligente e mágico sobre o continente africano.

L'arbre de sobo

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