The Psychology of Artistic Creativity: An Existential-Phenomenological Study

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• PART ONE: PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES OF ARTISTIC CREATIVITY
• Chapter One
• Solitude is Writing: Marguerite Duras on Creative Writing
• Place of Solitude
• Separation from Others
• Solitude as a State of Mind
• Writing Is the Unknown
• Writing Comes Like the Wind
• Doubt Equals Writing
• Madness of Writing
• An Open Book Is Also Night
• The Howls of Animals in the Night
• Raw and Precise
• Chapter Two
• Inspiration Comes From Your Mind: Agnes Martin on Painting
• Agnes Martin's Paintings
• Passion for the Horizontal Line
• Inspiration Is a Command
• A Vacant Mind
• Beauty Is the Mystery of Life
• Happiness Is Being on the Beam with Life
• Abstract Emotions
• Perfection and Inspiration
• Chapter Three
• Affinity for the Infinite: Einojuhani Rautavaara on Composing
• First Impetus
• I am the Midwife
• Music Has a Will of Its Own
• Taste for the infinite
• A Glimpse of Eternity
• Chapter Four
• One With a Word: Inger Christensen on Writing Poetry
• The Blank Paper
• The Organizing Effect of the Coincidence
• I Write Like Wind Writes
• State of Secrecy
• Language in Its Inextricable Connectedness to Reality
• Structure Is Already There
• Undivided wholeness of the universe
• Chapter Five
• A Luminous State of being: Marina AbramoviC on Performance Art
• I am the Work
• Pure Presence
• Parallel Realities
• Walking Through Walls
• Luminous State of Being
• Cleaning the House
• Living Antenna
• Idea
• Chapter Six
• Differences Within Oneness: kui dong on composition
• Means to Create
• Emptying the Mind
• Sound Idea
• Concept of Music
• No Meaning
• Thin Line of Mystery
• Emotional Energy
• Appealing Infinity
• PART TWO: AN EXISTENTIAL-PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ARTISTIC CREATIVITY
• Chapter Seven
• origins of artistic creativity
• Pure Experience Is Ineffable
• Ordinary Experience in Daily Life
• Pulsating Consciousness
• Pure Experience as Sensation
• Pure Experience as Living Reality
• Pure Experience Is an Empty Mind
• Pure Experience as Oneness
• Pure Experience Has a Life of Its Own
• Pure Experience Is Imbued with Vitality
• Pure Experience as Foreign Power
• Chapter Eight
• The impulse to create
• First Impulse to Create
• Sensation as Creative Impulse
• Vitality of the First Creative Impulse
• Approaching Death to Become Alive
• Sensate Form and Emotion
• Sketch of a Phenomenological Model
• Chapter Nine
• source for artistic creativity
• Emotions in Artistic Creativity
• Emotional Life
• Abstract Emotions
• Existential Imprints
• Concealed Emotional Memory
• Emminded Knowledge
• Source for Artistic Creativity
• Chapter Ten
• A NEW MODEL FOR artistic creativity
• Psychological Creativity Research
• Existential Approach to Artistic Creativity
• Prelude to Artistic Creativity
• Impulse to Create
• Nature of Creative Process
• Going With the Flow
• Embodied Artistic Skill
• Work of Art
• Index