Overview
- This book is the first text that comprehensively responds to the current global obsession with creativity by using an integrated and transdisciplinary approach.
Part of the book series: Advances in Creativity and Giftedness (ACAG, volume 6)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The conundrum of understanding, practising and teaching contemporary creativity is that it wants to be all things to all people. Almost all modern lists of creativity, creative thinking and how-to ‘becoming creative’ books begin with one premise: the creative individual/artist is not special, rather each of us is creative in a special way and these skills can – and must - be nurtured. Increasingly, industry and education leaders are claiming that creativity is the core skill to take us into a prosperous future, signalling the democratisation of creativity as industry. Yet centuries of association between aesthetics, mastery and creativity are hard to dismantle. These days, it is increasingly difficult to discuss creativity without reference to business, industry and innovation. Why do we love to think of creativity in this way and no longer as that rare visitation of the muse or the elite gift of the few? This book looks at the possibility that creativity is taking a turn, what that turn might be, and how it relates to industry, education and, ultimately, cultural role of creativity and aesthetics for the 21st century. In proliferating discourses of the commodification of creativity, there is one thing all the experts agree on: creativity is undefinable, possibly unteachable, largely unassessable, and becoming the most valuable commodity in 21st-century markets.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Creative Turn
Book Subtitle: Toward a New Aesthetic Imaginary
Authors: Anne Harris
Series Title: Advances in Creativity and Giftedness
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-551-9
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-551-9Published: 16 April 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 188
Topics: Education, general