Artistic creation : a phenomenological account / Jeff Mitscherling and Paul Fairfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitscherling, Jeffrey Anthony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

xvii, 155 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2019.

Summary:

Artistic creation has proven remarkably resistant to philosophical analysis. Artists have long struggled to explain how they do what they do, and philosophers have struggled along with them. This study does not attempt to offer a comprehensive account of all creativity or all art. Instead it tries to identify an essential feature of an activity that has been cloaked in mystery for as long as history records. Jeff Mitscherling and Paul Fairfield argue that the process by which art is created has a good deal in common with the experience of the audience of a work, and that both experiences may be described phenomenologically in ways that show surprising affinities with what artists themselves often report.

Contents:

Tracking intentions

What artists tell us

Some central concepts and theories

More clues from Plato and Aristotle

A model of the work of art

Structural and hermeneutic considerations involved in artistic creation and

Aesthetic judgment

Implications.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Mitscherling, Jeffrey Anthony, author. Artistic creation

ISBN:

9781498593533

1498593534

OCLC:

1084693421