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> <p><strong>PART ONE: PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES OF ARTISTIC CREATIVITY. 1. </strong>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<strong> </strong>on Performance Art. 6. Differences Within Oneness: Kui Dong on composition. <b>PART TWO: AN EXISTENTIAL-PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ARTISTIC CREATIVITY. </b>7. Origins of artistic creativity. 8. The impulse to create. 9. Source for artistic creativity. 10.A new model for artistic creativity</p>