UID:
edoccha_9959664580902883
Format:
1 online resource (372 p.)
ISBN:
3-653-98216-2
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3-653-04415-4
Content:
Throughout the literature of creative learning, many assumptions and even stereotypes about the artists' creativity are nurtured, often according to myths going back to the Romanticism. The authors have been investigating and describing outstanding artists' creativity and learning/working processes, asking the question: how do artists create, learn, and organise their work? This book explores these questions by means of original empirical data (interviews with 22 artists) and theoretical research in the field of the arts and creativity from a learning perspective. Findings shed an original lig
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; About the authors; List of tables and figures; Recognised by whom? Insights on research considerations (Tatiana Chemi and Julie Borup Jensen); Part One: Creativity and Art by Tatiana Chemi; Chapter 1: Artistic creativity: past, present and future; Etymology and definition(s); History of a concept; The arts and creativity; Creativity studies today; Chapter 2: Artists defining creativity; Meeting definitional challenges; Art: word and value; What creativity is for artists; Creativity as compulsion to make art; Creativity as artistic identity
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The ineffable businessEmbodied meaning; Propositional and presentational; Art as language in a new key; Art as creative ex-pression; Chapter 3: Artistic process and composition; Before the storm: preparing for creation over a lifetime; The lifelong creative project; Inspiration; Preparing for the creation of artworks; Intentional exposure to experiences; Stealing: dialogue or fight with models; Sweeping up the creative space; Getting to work: engaging the idea-reservoir; Virtuosity; In dialogue with the medium; Rules; The art of making art; Chapter 4: Artistic emotions and ways of thinking
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When the work is doneEmotions in the making; Positive emotions; Artists in flow; Negative emotions; Bridging positive and negative; Motivation, resilience and persistence; Art-making as discovery and research; Part Two: Learning and Change by Julie Borup Jensen; Chapter 5: Creativity and elements of learning and change; Creativity, learning and the arts; Why associate the concepts of learning and creativity?; Experience, action and learning within the arts; Action, community and creativity; Cognition, arts and learning; Socio-cultural dimensions in learning
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Tools and meaning-making in the artsDeterminism and spontaneity; Culturalism and creativity; Domains and the creative process; Aesthetic learning and senses in learning processes; Learning and creativity as intertwined and interwoven. What are the perspectives?; Chapter 6: Creativity and ways of building knowledge and skills; Learning purposes, goals and strategies in artistic work; Adequate expression: technical skills, craftsmanship and the body; Without technique, creative ideas die; Practicing as a learning strategy; Continual learning: how to creatively renew artistic expression
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Challenging oneself as a learning strategyChanging perspectives of meaning as a learning strategy; Impossibilities and obstruction; Challenge as a strategy for continual learning and creativity; Feeling lost: disorientation, crises and frustration in learning; Open engagement with the world; Curiosity killed the cat - but not learning; The reflective practitioner - a curious practitioner; Practice, challenge, curiosity and improvisation; Chapter 7: Creativity, learning and apprenticeship; Apprenticeship and the situated understanding of learning; Shared work, distributed learning
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Non-verbal learning opportunities
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-631-65397-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-49864-4
Language:
German
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