Creativity and art: three roads to surprise

by Boden, Margaret A.

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Title Statements

Full title :Creativity and art : three roads to surprise / Margaret A. Boden.

Summary

Margaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity in general is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas (conceptual, theoretical, musical, literary, or visual). Boden identifies three forms of creativity: combinational, exploratory, and transformational. These elicit differing forms of surprise, and are defined by the different kinds of psychological process that generate the new ideas. Boden examines creativity not only in traditional fine art, but also in craftworks, and some less orthodox approaches--namely, conceptual art and several types of computer art. Her Introduction draws out the conceptual links between the various case-studies, showing how they express a coherent view of creativity in art.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

Notes

Originally published: 2010.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 260 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199659395, 0199659397, 9780199590735, 0199590737
oclc:ocn820126225
LC Classification:BF408
Dewey Decimal:153.35

Introduction -- Creativity in a nutshell -- Are autodidacts creative? -- Crafts, perception, and the possibilities of the body -- Creativity and conceptual art -- Personal signatures in art -- What is generative art? -- Agents and creativity -- Autonomy, integrity, and computer art -- Authenticity and computer art -- Aesthetics and interactive art -- Is metabolism necessary?