Finding the Muse: A Sociopsychological Inquiry into the Conditions of Artistic Creativity - Hardcover

Freeman, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0521392187 ISBN 13: 9780521392181

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1994

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The author identifies the problems of artistic creativity and outlines conditions conducive to artistic creation.

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Finding the Muse explores the lives of a group of aspiring artists from the mid-1960s, when they completed art school, to the mid-1980s, focusing especially on problems of artistic creativity as they relate to such issues as the mystique of the artist, the challenge of establishing community among artists, the place of the art market in the construction of artistic identity, and the limits and possibilities of modern and postmodern art itself. The present exploration is a timely one; for despite the wealth of information suggesting that recent decades have brought an unparalleled measure of freedom for artists owing to the increasingly pluralistic climate within which they have lived and worked, it is suggested here that this climate has been decidedly less conducive to creativity than is often assumed. By identifying salient problems of contemporary artistic creativity, Mark Freeman seeks both to reconstruct more optimal conditions of creativity and to provide direction for how these conditions might be achieved. In addition to having particular usefulness for psychologists of art and sociologists of American culture, Finding the Muse will be of interest to aspiring artists, philosophers, art historians, and art educators.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521392187
• ISBN 13: 9780521392181
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
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