Psychology of Artistic Creativity

<p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>