"Strange, timely and wonderful" -Mark Wunderlich The Art Courage Program is a hybrid book combining two literary genres: self-help and cultural criticism. This book offers readers the tools needed to overcome anxieties associated with all aspects of art. The step-by-step program encourages readers to move beyond negative art reactions, learn from and be healed by their experiences, and find acceptance and even appreciation of art.
The Art Courage Program is comprised of interactive chapters, which invite readers to assess the acuteness of their own "art anxiety" and to adopt various coping strategies for their affliction. Illustrations depicting scenarios of instances of "art anxiety" and the practice of therapeutic treatments are featured throughout the text.
Readers of The Art Courage Program are offered access to an MP3 download of the recorded text and related therapeutic products (the COURAGE series of Wellness Fragrances, The Art Courage Program's Book of Aphorisms, and The Art Courage Program Special Edition Audio Cassette with MP3 download card) after the conclusion of the program text. The Art Courage Program book is just one of the iterations of the program-the reader is encouraged to experience the program in trans-media, through auditory, olfactory, physical, and literary modalities.
The Art Courage Program can be sold in the "Positive Psychology" genre, and other categories including but not limited to "Cultural Criticism," "Humor," and "Art." The Art Courage Program uses humor in its approach to popular culture, and can be taken at therapeutic face value, while at the same time it pokes fun at the American obsession with the personal empowerment movement.
About the Author: Brian Goeltzenleuchter founded Contraposto Living in 1998. The company's mission is to enhance personal and institutional equilibrium through a proprietary line of products, services and educational tools. The retail wing of Contraposto Living is dedicated to refashioning the greatest achievements of world culture into consumable home accents through an ever-growing line of candles, soap, fragrances, and garden sculpture. The company's institutional wing has received international acclaim for its proprietary line of services and educational tools designed explicitly for cultural institutions and the people they employ.
Katharine Whitcomb is an Emotional Language Therapist (ELT), whose therapeutic manifestos include Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems (Bluestem Press, 2001), Hosannas (Parallel Press, 1999) and Lamp of Letters (Floating Bridge Press, 2009). She is the co-facilitator of A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology, and the senior prescription writer at Cascadia Chronicle: A Geospatial Journal of Place, Environment and Imagination. She has had research published in many journals including The Paris Review and in anthologies, including Fire On Her Tongue. She expresses regret that she is no longer able to take on new patients.
