Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise pdf da Margaret Boden
These essays explore creativity within a wide range of art. Many of the examples discussed lie within traditional fine art, or in familiar kinds of craftwork. Some are drawn from movements explicitly contrasted with orthodox art, such as conceptual art. Yet others are instances of computer art, which has been developing, and diversifying, since the late 1950s. (The taxonomy in Chapter 7 provides an introduction to the field.) Creativity is not the only philosophically problematic concept raised by computer art. Others include autonomy, authenticity, authorship . . .and occasionally even life. The philosophical problems differ according to the type of computer art being discussed. So do the aesthetic criteria that are regarded as relevant—some of which are applied also to traditional fine art. Two papers are published here for the first time (Chapters 6 and 11), and two are extended versions of very brief earlier pieces (Chapters 9 and 10). The originals appeared in widely diverse publications—focused on art, philosophy, education, and science. Nevertheless, the chapters are unified by a particular theoretical approach, summarized in Chapter 2. The Introduction indicates the conceptual links between them, showing how they express a coherent view of creativity in art.
Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. Creativity in a Nutshell 29
3. Are Autodidacts Creative? 41
4. Crafts, Perception, and the Possibilities of the Body 50
5. Creativity and Conceptual Art 70
6. Personal Signatures in Art 92
7. What Is Generative Art? 125
8. Agents and Creativity 164
9. Autonomy, Integrity, and Computer Art 175
10. Authenticity and Computer Art 193
11. Aesthetics and Interactive Art 210
12. Is Metabolism Necessary?