1st Edition
The Psychology of Artistic Creativity An Existential-Phenomenological Study
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 Abramović 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
Biography
Bjarne Sode Funch is Associate Professor in Psychological Aesthetics at Roskilde University and Honorary Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
