TY - CHAP
T1 - Tropes And Tools Of Creativity
T2 - The Ontology Of Image And Its Unpredictable Operations
AU - Isar, Nicoletta
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - By inquiring into the mythopoetic roots of creativity in Modernism, this paper aims further to search for answers regarding human creativity in one of its most enduring expressions and manifestations, detrimentally called Primitivism. Following Pellizzi’s invitation to see “Primitivism as an essential rather than episodic constituent of our art historical consciousness,” and with the help of other anthropologists (Lévi-Strauss) and theorists of the image (Belting), I hope to understand why the “archaic” never died in ourselves. Focus will be on the artistic expressions of Brancusi’s work and some of his Avant-garde contemporary, trying to define the mechanism of the creative process as a mythopoetic activity, a mode of “communication” between the model, the materials, and the user, a collective or authorless event, indeed, a revelation: a play of unpredictable operations.
AB - By inquiring into the mythopoetic roots of creativity in Modernism, this paper aims further to search for answers regarding human creativity in one of its most enduring expressions and manifestations, detrimentally called Primitivism. Following Pellizzi’s invitation to see “Primitivism as an essential rather than episodic constituent of our art historical consciousness,” and with the help of other anthropologists (Lévi-Strauss) and theorists of the image (Belting), I hope to understand why the “archaic” never died in ourselves. Focus will be on the artistic expressions of Brancusi’s work and some of his Avant-garde contemporary, trying to define the mechanism of the creative process as a mythopoetic activity, a mode of “communication” between the model, the materials, and the user, a collective or authorless event, indeed, a revelation: a play of unpredictable operations.
U2 - 10.1057/978-1-137-46344-9_34
DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-46344-9_34
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781137463432
T3 - Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
SP - 701
EP - 720
BT - The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research
A2 - Glaveanu, Vlad Petre
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -