1st Edition
Play and the Artist’s Creative Process The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi
By Elly Thomas
Copyright 2019
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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Play and the Artist’s Creative Process explores a continuity between childhood play and adult creativity. The volume examines how an understanding of play can shed new light on processes that recur in the work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi. Both artists’ distinctive engagement with popular culture is seen as connected to the play materials available in the landscapes of their individual... Read more
Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Ageing Play; Chapter 2: Kits and Building Blocks; Chapter 3: Creative Battles; Chapter 4: Eduardo Paolozzi’s Playgrounds: Contradictions in Art and Play; Chapter 5: Shuffle/Spin/Stack: Emergent Narrative; Chapter 6: Absurd Processes; Concluding Remarks
Biography
Elly Thomas is an artist and independent scholar. She received her PhD from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. She has taught at UCL and the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK.
