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• Winner of 2023 CSA Book Award Awarded by the Canadian Sociological Association 2023 (Canada)

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Author:   Saara Liinamaa
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781487502805

ISBN 10:   148750280
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   14 July 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The New Spirit of Creativity Section I: Creativity, Critique, and the Art School 1. Our New Spirit and the Dilemmas of Artistic Critique Positioning the New Spirit of Creativity Fond Memories of Rebellion 2. What Could Be More Creative Than an Art School?: Canada’s Art and Design Universities Art and Design Higher Education in Canada The Art School, the Art College, the Art University New Challenges, Familiar Stories Section II: Everyday Work at Imagination University Meet the Faculty 3. Welcome to the Department of Non-Applied Creativity: Strategic Planning and Talk of Research The Dilemmas of Research at the Art and Design University Talk of Research The Rise of Niche Bureaucracy 4. Creative Excellence, Ambiguity, and Audit Culture Designating and Measuring Creative Value Judging Others and the Boundaries of Creative Practices The Openness and Uncertainty of Interpretation 5. Performing at the “Shit Show”: The Conscripted Performers of Institutional Identity The Cultural and Economic Performativity of Work Creative Identities at Work The Institution and the Abject The Cost of Remedy 6. Navigating the Permanent-temporary Divide: Insecurity, Flexibility, and Nostalgia Academic Work and Labour in Transition Redeeming Insecurity: Distancing Strategies and Associations Exiting the Institution 7. Rocks and Bubbles: Metaphors of Institutional Duress Describing Institutional Landscapes in Times of Uncertainty Between a Rock and a Hard Place The Fragility of Creative Past and Future Same Difference Conclusion The Terms of Compromise Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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The New Spirit of Creativity is a very engaging and critically sharp analysis of the status and value of art and design within higher education and beyond. Saara Liinamaa's analysis is underpinned through extensive empirical research and provides detailed insights into cultural work within Canadian art and design universities. The discussion is carefully positioned between research on cultural work and on learning and teaching within higher education. The New Spirit of Creativity is a great contribution in debating and addressing potential futures for higher education. - Daniel Ashton, Associate Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Southampton Based on original empirical research, The New Spirit of Creativity richly illuminates the Canadian art school as a key site for interrogating the rhetoric of the creative economy, the ambivalence of cultural work, the dynamics of artist-academic identity formation, and the mounting pressures of contemporary academic life. Beyond closing a gap in scholarship on Canadian art schools, Saara Liinamaa brings fresh critical insight to the study of cultural labour and higher education today. - Greig de Peuter, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University Demands for creativity have become increasingly fraught, producing a new spirit of aesthetic work. In her compelling analysis of three Canadian art and design universities, Saara Liinamaa deftly demonstrates the dynamics that both encourage and hinder artists from embracing the ideal of the creative. Building on extensive in-depth interviews, she presents the tensions between compromise and critique in careers and artworks. Liinamaa's composite account of 'Imagination University' makes a powerful case for rethinking how contemporary artists must negotiate a world of institutional constraint. - Gary Alan Fine, James E. Johnson Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, and author of Talking Art: The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education

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Saara Liinamaa is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph.

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