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This book grows out of an abiding fascination with three distinct, yet interrelated, spheres of human experience.
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Finding the Muse explores the lives of a group of aspiring artists from the mid-1960s, when they completed art school, to the mid-1980s, focusing especially on problems of artistic creativity as they relate to such issues as the mystique of the artist, the challenge of establishing community among artists, the place of the art market in the construction of artistic identity, and the limits and possibilities of modern and postmodern art itself. The present exploration is a timely one; for despite the wealth of information suggesting that recent decades have brought an unparalleled measure of freedom for artists owing to the increasingly pluralistic climate within which they have lived and worked, it is suggested here that this climate has been decidedly less conducive to creativity than is often assumed. By identifying salient problems of contemporary artistic creativity, Mark Freeman seeks both to reconstruct more optimal conditions of creativity and to provide direction for how these conditions might be achieved. In addition to having particular usefulness for psychologists of art and sociologists of American culture, Finding the Muse will be of interest to aspiring artists, philosophers, art historians, and art educators.
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- Title Finding the Muse
- Author Mark Freeman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1994-01-28
- ISBN 9780521392181 / 0521392187
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.37 x 0.96 in (23.62 x 16.18 x 2.44 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Artists - United States - Psychology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93003468
- Dewey Decimal Code 709.730
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