CRI 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fra Angelico, Bildungsroman, Social Environment
8 Jan 2018
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Just kids and the rise of the artist memoir. The genre touches on two literary traditions. Can artist memoirs be considered to be a form of knowledge about creativity? (cid:498)there is considerable informal evidence that social-psychological factors have significant impact on the creativity of outstanding individuals. Most of this evidence comes from autobiographies, letters, journals and other first person accounts by artists, writers and others generally acknowledged for their creative achievements(cid:499) Key themes: early years and artistic/historical influences: summer of 1967 (summer of love, varied, eclectic, broad, visual art: modigliani, sargent (museum in philadelphia), Guernica, dubuffet, fra angelico, ryder, etc: music: bob dylan, etc, style: androgynous, stripped down, deliberate choices, blow- Up: literary: french poetry/writing, little women, love on the. Theory helps us consider why, how, and if something should be done - rather than just doing it. Theories of creativity (kozbelt: developmental, how can we design the environment to allow for creative exploration, ex.
