Overview

This ground-breaking book provides a unique insight into artistic creativity that lays the foundation for a new theory. Through a review of documents such as essays, published interviews, lecture notes, and more, the book uses case studies of six contemporary artists to provide a detailed phenomenological study of artistic creativity. The book offers a narrative account of six contemporary artists and their ways of approaching art-making. Through comprehensive accounts based on the individual artist’s descriptions, the book reveals an existential dimension of art-making that explores the inspirational moment, the state of mind during creativity, how creativity can originate in a spontaneous stream of consciousness, and how emotions play a major role in the creative process. The book sets out a unique understanding of artistic creativity as an alternative to the prevailing cognitive conceptions within psychology. Offering novel insights into how art is created and can influence the human psyche, the book will primarily appeal to academics, scholars, and post-graduate students within the area of creativity research, psychological aesthetics, and the psychology of art, as well as those with an interest in art and artistic work.

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Author:   Bjarne Sode Funch (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781032164373

ISBN 10:   1032164379
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   29 December 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART ONE: PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES OF ARTISTIC CREATIVITY. 1. Solitude is Writing: Marguerite Duras on Creative Writing. 2. Inspiration Comes From Your Mind: Agnes Martin on Painting. 3. Affinity for the Infinite: Einojuhani Rautavaara on Composing. 4. Wind writes in water: Inger Christensen on Writing Poetry. 5. A Luminous State of being: Marina Abramović on Performance Art. 6. Differences Within Oneness: Kui Dong on composition. PART TWO: AN EXISTENTIAL-PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ARTISTIC CREATIVITY. 7. Origins of artistic creativity. 8. The impulse to create. 9. Source for artistic creativity. 10.A new model for artistic creativity

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Bjarne Sode Funch is Associate Professor in Psychological Aesthetics at Roskilde University and Honorary Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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