Artistic Creation: A Phenomenological Account

by Jeff Mitscherling, Paul Fairfield, Jeff Mitscherling University of Guelph

Book Overview

Artistic creation has proven remarkably resistant to philosophical analysis. Artists have long struggled to explain how they do what they do, and philosophers have struggled along with them. This study does not attempt to offer a comprehensive account of all creativity or all art. Instead it tries to identify an essential feature of an activity that has been cloaked in mystery for as long as history records. Jeff Mitscherling and Paul Fairfield argue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498593550
• ISBN13: 9781498593557
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"