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The Act of Creation is a 1964 book by Arthur Koestler.It is a study of the processes of discovery, invention, imagination and creativity in humour, science, and the arts. It lays out Koestler's attempt to develop an elaborate general theory of human creativit
Creativity is the ability to form novel and valuable ideas or works using one's imagination. Products of creativity may be intangible (e.g. an idea, scientific theory, literary work, musical composition, or joke), or a physical object (e.g. an invention, dish or meal, piece of jewelry, costume, a painting).
The ways in which societies have perceived the concept of creativity have changed throughout history, as has the term itself. The ancient Greek concept of art (in Greek, "techne " —the root of "technique" and "technology"), with the exception of poetry, involved not freedom of action but subjection to rules.
6 Creativity in the Whole of Life The individual, cosmic and social dimensions are considered. It is held that creativity blockages can be overcome and that " 'loosening' rigidly held intellectual content in the tacit infrastructure of consciousness" plays a main role for awakening creative intelligence. 7 The Order Between and Beyond
Indispensability of creativity in science; Careers depend largely on creativity; Creativity in leadership and professions; Imagination can improve personal relations; Universality of imaginative talent; Ways by which creativity can be developed; Our new environment - its effect on creativity; Other factors that tend to cramp creativity
For Jung, active imagination often includes working with dreams and the creative self via imagination or fantasy. It is a meditation technique wherein the contents of one's unconscious are translated into images , narratives , or personified as separate entities, thus serving as a bridge between the conscious "ego" and the unconscious.
Art and (aesthetic) mythology, according to Dewey, is an attempt to find light in a great darkness. Art appeals directly to sense and the sensuous imagination, and many aesthetic and religious experiences occur as the result of energy and material used to expand and intensify the experience of life.
Addressing the issue of what makes, for example, Marcel Duchamp's "readymades" art, or why a pile of Brillo cartons in a supermarket is not art, whereas Andy Warhol's famous Brillo Boxes (a pile of Brillo carton replicas) is, the art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto wrote in his 1964 essay "The Artworld":