The Human Power of Imagination
Imagination
Imaginary
Creativity

Defining Art
Art as Imitation

Aristotle

A Historical Context

• Art by the Rules
• neoclassicism
• verisimilitude
• unities of time place and action
• Moliere
• Corneille
• Art and Creative Freedom
• romanticism

Art and the Question of Realism
 
• Realistic art
• representational
• literalism
• naturalism
• believabilty
• Nonrealistic art
• presentational
• non-figurative
• minimalist
• Artistic conventions

 
The Many Forms of Imitation
The Useful Arts
• applied arts
• fine arts
• artisans

 
The Fine Arts
• spatial arts
• manipulating materials in space
• graphic arts: paintings, drawing, printmaking
• plastic arts: sculpture, architecture, poetry, weaving
• autographic
• temporal arts (time)
• -manipulate sound, symbols, moving forms over a duration of time
• literary arts
• performing arts
• allographic

Artistic Delivery Systems
• Delivering Spatial Arts
• Delivering Literary Arts
• Delivering Performing Arts
• performers
• ensemble

 
Differences Among the Arts
• Movies
• Television
• Literature
• Theatre
 

 
The Artist: A Talent for Making Choices
A Profile of Creativity
• Snowflake Model of Creativity -David Perkins
• six points=Six psychological traits of a creative person.
The Sources of Talent
• Case for Inspiration
• Case for Science
• Freud
• Two sides of the brain
• physical coordination
• heredity
• spiritual, emotional, physiological
Measuring Talent
• Howard Gardner "Frames of Mind"
• Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Skill, Training and Practice
 
Responding to Art
• The Question of Meaning
• The Value of Art
formal values
functional values
• Entertainment
• Exaltation
• Stendhal syndrome
• Economics
• Intellectual property
• Edification


The Power of Art

• Brecht
• Artistic truth
• Facts vs Intuition
art imitates life, life returns the favor and imitates art
Art, Commerce, and Government
• Art and Government
• Evaluating Art
• The Need for Artistic Literacy

 
The Creative Process and Theatre Arts

An Artist at Work

Howard Gardner
High level creators have certain traits