Happiness : 25 ways to live joyfully through art /
"Drawing upon his ground-breaking work in the psychology of happiness and mindfulness, Christophe André shares 25 paintings by a wide range of masters, including Van Gogh, Vermeer and Chagall, and invites us to consider how they capture the many colours of happiness in their art, alongside its...
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London :
Rider Books,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude: The enigma of happiness
- Morning: The birth of happiness. Powerful and fragile, like life itself ; Our earliest happiness ; The happiness of childhood ; Everyday happiness
- Midday: The plenitude of happiness. Like a force that will... ; What makes for happiness? ; The intelligence of happiness ; The breath of love ; Only connect ; Happiness beyond ourselves
- Evening: The twilights of happiness. The melancholy of happiness ending ; Every happiness has an element of darkness ; The temptation of sorrow ; Entering the winter of happiness
- Night: Vanished happiness. The dark night of the soul ; The incandescent solitude of pain ; Stars in the night ; Reasons to fight on
- Dawn: The return of happiness. Happiness grows stronger ; Happiness regained ; Happiness is a long story ; The wisdom of happiness ; Eternal happiness?
- Taking flight: In the great wind of the world.