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Editor Jill Mullin is the recipient of the inaugural Felix in Art Award, presented by Extreme Kids & Crew!

"Drawing Autism highlights an 'area where individuals with autism can have great abilities.'...Jill Mullin, a clinical therapist, explores the recurring themes in art made by people with autism."
--New York Times Book Review

One of Brain Picking's Best Art, Design, and Photography Books of 2014

"This book is a testament to the power of art to reveal the inner world of people living with ASD."
--Publishers Weekly

"A jaw-droppingly beautiful book."
--Library Journal

Included in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's "96 Books For Your Summer Reading List" under "7 Visually Appealing Books"

"Drawing Autism is not just a book about autism and art--it's a book about being human and expressing selfhood in all its beautiful, messy, complex forms. Add Drawing Autism to your wish list, tell your friends about it, and show it to your kids on the spectrum."
--Autism/Asperger's Digest

"Mullin, a behavior analyst, brings together fascinating works by 40 artists on the spectrum with their answers to her questions about their process."
--The Boston Globe

"Editor Jill Mullin has collected artwork from a host of painters and other graphic artists who are all somewhere on the spectrum. The fascinating and often lovely reprints in Drawing Autism help provide another perspective on the capabilities of people with autism."
--Time Out New York

"Mullin's clinical background in Applied Behavior Analysis, combined with more than a decade helping individuals with ASD, serve her well as the book’s curator."
--The Portland Phoenix

"[Editor Jill Mullin] has put together a beautiful and stimulating exhibition-in-a-book."
--Story Circle Book Reviews

"Drawing Autism is absolutely wonderful in its entirety."
--Brain Pickings

"Jill Mullin embraces the full range and spectrum of autism and artistic expression...Rich and varied images."
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"This book is like a key to opening doors across educational and medical landscapes. But perhaps even more importantly, the fact that many of the artists are able to explain what they were feeling at the time of their drawings will surely help this book find solid footing among parents, caregivers, and extended family members who have, up to this point, struggled to understand the inner workings of their precious loved one’s autistic mind."
--New York Journal of Books

"A book of astonishing beauty."
--BOOKS (France)

"What is the actual experience of living with autism in a deep-felt sense, beyond the social stereotypes and headline-worthy superskills? Drawing Autism, a celebration of the artistry and self-expression found in artwork by people diagnosed with autism, explores just that. The stunning volume features works by more fifty international contributors, from children to established artists, that illustrate the rich multiplicity of the condition."
--The Atlantic

Over the last decade autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has become an international topic of conversation, knowing no racial, ethnic, or social barriers. Behavior analyst and educator Jill Mullin has assembled a staggering array of work from established artists like Gregory Blackstock and Jessica Park to the unknown but no less talented. Their creations, coupled with artist interviews, comprise a fascinating and compelling book that serves to educate and inspire anyone who knows someone diagnosed with ASD. Mullin's introduction and the foreword by best-selling author Temple Grandin provide an overview of autism and advocate for nurturing the talents, artistic and otherwise, of autistic individuals.

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"Drawing Autism is a drop-dead beautiful book that celebrates the artistry and self-expression found in the drawings, paintings, and collages created by individuals diagnosed with autism. It is a stunning, thoughtful and yes, HOPEFUL book that is not just for families touched by autism, but for all who are curious about the disorder."
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"If you're a practicing or aspiring art therapist, this book is essential reading and it also offers the casual reader an insight into this curious strand of outsider art."
--Grafik Magazine

"Drawing Autism is a drop-dead beautiful book that celebrates the artistry and self-expression found in the drawings, paintings, and collages created by individuals diagnosed with autism. It is a stunning, thoughtful and yes, HOPEFUL book that is not just for families touched by autism, but for all who are curious about the disorder."
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"If you're a practicing or aspiring art therapist, this book is essential reading and it also offers the casual reader an insight into this curious strand of outsider art."
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Jill Mullin, MA MSEd BCBA, is a New York City-based behavior analyst who has been working with individuals with ASD since 2000.

Temple Grandin, PhD, is considered the most accomplished adult with autism in the world. She is the author of several books, including the best sellers The Way I See It and Animals in Translation.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1617751987
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Akashic Books; Illustrated edition (March 25, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781617751981
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1617751981
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.9 x 0.8 x 10.9 inches

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Temple Grandin is one of the world’s most accomplished and well known adults with autism. She has a PhD in animal science from the University of Illinois and is a professor at Colorado State University. She is the author of six books, including the national bestsellers Thinking in Pictures and Animals in Translation. Dr. Grandin is a past member of the board of directors of the Autism Society of America. She lectures to parents and teachers throughout the U.S. on her experiences with autism, and her work has been covered in the New York Times, People, National Public Radio, and 20/20. Most recently she was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year. The HBO movie based on her life, starring Claire Danes, received seven Emmy Awards.
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Jill Mullin, MA, MSEd, BCBA, is a Behavior Analyst in New York City who works with adults and children diagnosed with ASD.
She began developing Drawing Autism when an adult named Glen, who is diagnosed with autism, began sharing his art work with her. At an early age Glen had developed a passion for music and drawing. Every week, Glen would draw stylistic stick figure of his favorite bands, like the Jackson 5, Temptations, and the Whispers, depicting the bands singing, dancing or playing instruments as if they were caught in a snapshot from the Ed Sullivan show. This young artist inspired Mullin to research more artists with autism and further examine their talents. Upon researching the topic she found that there are many great artists with autism, who have wonderful ways in which they represent their view point and our world.
The first edition of Drawing Autism is out of print but garnered international acclaim in numerous media outlets, including Fox News, The New Scientist, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, 50 Watts, Brain Pickings, The Atlantic, and Raw Vision, as well as in several international clinical journals. Akashic will publish the second edition of Drawing Autism, which features new material and artists.
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Art Illustrating Autism

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2017

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Now in its second edition, Drawing Autism is a collection of artwork compiled by NYC-based behavioral analyst Jill Mullin. Mullin explains in her introductory essay how one year her work had her cross paths with an autistic artist living in a group home who showed extraordinary joy and talent through his artwork. Her acquaintance with this artist inspired her to seek out other talented artists with autism across the world. Mullin lays out her end goal with this project:

"Commonly in the media, individuals with autism have been shown to have great talents in certain areas such as science and math. The intention of this book is to display another area where individuals with autism can have great abilities."

Within this opening essay, Mullin also reveals that this project ended up being so successful that it helped greatly propel the featured artists into global notoriety, many of them being asked to do art showings all over the world. Mullin's essay is preceded by a foreword written by none other than Temple Grandin, one of today's most famous faces when it comes to autism awareness! Also included in the art collection are a few of Grandin's diagrams of her inventions (designs for more humane deaths for cattle in meat processing facilities).

Mullin wrote up a list of interview questions that she submitted to each artist she asked to be featured in this collection. From those questions, she pulls some of the most interesting or revealing answers, placing them alongside the artwork, giving the viewer / reader an eye-opening look into the world of an autistic mind. The collection as a whole is broken up into themed sections that illustrate common characteristics of the autism spectrum as a whole. For example, "Getting From Here To There" collects art pieces that focus on fascination with various modes of transportation; "Interaction, Individual and Societal" gives artists a space to express how they perceive themselves from a societal point of view. Many pieces in this section illustrate feelings of isolation, not being fully understood or accepted, frustration with miscommunications, etc; "Art For Art's Sake" is a place for the artists to just create for the sake of joy and fun. There's no particular deep meaning to the works in this section necessarily, just pieces that have made the artists happy or at peace in their souls.

Personally, "Art For Art's Sake" and "Bird's Eye View" (pieces focusing on nature themes) were my favorite sections. I especially loved the works of Shawn Belanger -- his autism leaves him predominately non-verbal -- whose work is featured on several pages of Drawing Autism. The colors and movement of his pieces shouted a joy of life to me! My very favorite piece though, I think I'd give that to "The Death of Love #373" by Charles D. Topping. I could not stop looking at it!

Some of the images, several actually, have definite grit and darkness to them. Some perusers of this book might be shocked at certain pieces if the paintings are only taken on their own. I would urge that you read the accompanying interview answers explaining many of the pieces. There you will see that while perhaps initially a shock to the eye, there is a purpose and / or a story of hurt behind the inspiration that you should hear.

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Unique artists and styles

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I came across this book while looking for books on what has been called Outsider Art or Art Brut. The connection is not surprising; many of these works by autistic artists have features in common with those done by the earlier artists called Outsiders, such as an emphasis on pattern and repetition, an urge to completely fill space, and a use of words as a decorative/artistic element. On the basis of biographical descriptions of Outsider Artists that I have read, too, I strongly suspect that if those artists had been alive today (most worked in the early 20th century), many of them would be diagnosed as belonging on the autistic spectrum.

Be that as it may, this book is interesting on its own for the variety of unique styles the artists display. Some show photographically accurate renditions of landscapes or objects in meticulous detail, while others feature explosions of wild color or playful depictions of fantastic scenes and animals. The comments by the artists or their caregivers (in cases where the artists were not able to speak on their own) about why they do art or choose particular subjects are also illuminating. Both works and comments highlight modes of perception from which those of us who are “neurotypical” can learn much.

All of the works are shown in color (if they were created in color), and almost all are given a full or nearly full page apiece, so the reader can see them in detail. The book is organized according to themes that turn up frequently among the artists: Interaction, Individual and Societal; Repetition, Repetition, Repetition; Getting from Here to There [transportation]; Bird’s-Eye View; Another World; It’s All History; and Art for Art’s Sake. Brief biographies of the artists appear at the end.

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I'm not much of a fan of visual art, and an ebook format is not an ideal medium for appreciation of detailed graphics. Yet, these creations speak to us on a private level, and convey feelings and emotions that would otherwise pass us by. Thanks to Jill's curation, we meet people on a unique level of communication, as if directly soul to soul.

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2016

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Bravo! A beautiful book of artwork filled with creativity. I've already given it to several people, some of whom have experienced living with autistic children, others for the sheer joy of seeing what these delightful and gifted young people are capable of accomplishing!

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Keep a copy for you and a copy in the classroom

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2015

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Beautiful prints and lovely paragraph descriptions of the artists who share their work. A valuable book I was keeping at home, but now I share with my elementary-age students with autism. Some students are very inspired by seeing the art in this book. I was too.

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very interesting

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2014

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This is a book which let you rethink what Autism people are thinking.
There is no an answer in this book. This is good to let the reader to think.

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Gabriel Manzanares

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La capacidad de expresarse a traves de la pintura es siempre conmovente pero la de estas personas es todavia mas especial.

Felicitaciones a todas las personas que trabajan con ellos para poder darles esta oportunidad.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2015

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PHyères

L'Art des autistes

Reviewed in France on April 19, 2014

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Il y a maintenant de nombreuses années que "l'art des fous","l'art des débiles" (voir le livre ancien de Jean Revol : Art de débiles, débiles de l'art ?), bref l'art pratiqué par les malades atteints de maladies psychiatriques est devenu digne d'intérêt.
Il ne s'agit pas là des artistes confirmés, célèbres, dont la créativité et les oeuvres ont pu être directement influencés par une pathologie (voir L'Art et la folie de Sophie de Sivry) mais bien les oeuvres de patients "lambda", qui pour la très grande majorité resteront inconnus.
Pourtant, dans ce livre bien édité (belles reproductions pleine page sur papier mat pour un prix vraiment modique) on est face à des oeuvres de qualité certes inégale mais parfois de grande qualité, exprimant toujours la souffrance ressentie par ces malades particuliers que sont les autistes.
Oeuvres autoditactes surprenantes de maturité dans certains cas, et qui rappellent des peintres aussi connus que Bacon par exemple (Milda Branzaite, Noah Erenberg).
Si le sujet vous intéresse, ou plus généralement si vous êtes amateur d'art, ce livre est pour vous.

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Joe Vandermeer

Refreshing, colourful, informative

Reviewed in Australia on December 17, 2018

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A creative view of life and of the world is a view which offers great freedom because more views introduces more possibilities and options to include and choose from as a way of seeing. This can bring acceptance and even immense delight of the variety created and expressed by our differences. Perfection of our society does not consist of seeking conformity but in tolerating - and preferably even celebrating - variety. This creative book offers such potentials. It can help us understand our differences and the unique value that brings us. Congrats to the artists and collaborators who made this book possible, it's a visual feast.

opchee

Lots of great pieces to check out and lots of talented artists to keep an eye on..

Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2015

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beautiful art book, autistic artists or not, theres a lot of fine fine works of art in this book, some of them do reveal some mind bendy autism styles but I would say a lot of it is just great pieces that any artist would be proud to exhibit.. I like the write ups of what some of the artists were thinking about or how they see the art.. very cool and mind opening book..

stacey l m green

Excellent coffee table book, amazing artwork by amazing minds. See what life is like through their eyes.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2015

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Fabulous hard cover book showing various artworks made by people who are on the autistic spectrum. I bought this after seeing it in the Wellcome collection museum in London to show my mum and autistic brother and the images are great,showing me what life is like through an autistic persons ryes.the condition makes communication difficult but through art they can express themselves and freely communicate with us, the reader. Perfect coffee table book that I regularly flick through. Item received promptly and as described too.

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Very inspiring

Reviewed in Japan on October 6, 2016

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The book, even if it's second hand is like new!
The illustrations are awesome!!! A very good collection of artworks from people with autism

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