Tropes And Tools Of Creativity: The Ontology Of Image And Its Unpredictable Operations

Nicoletta Isar

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-46344-9_34

Tropes And Tools Of Creativity: The Ontology Of Image And Its Unpredictable Operations

Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

Abstract

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.

Translated title of the contribution	Troper af kreativitet:Billedets ontologi og dets uforudsigelige operationer
Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research
Editors	Vlad Petre Glaveanu
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	2016
Pages	701-720
Chapter	34
ISBN (Print)	9781137463432
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137463449
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46344-9_34
Publication status	Published - 2016

Series	Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture

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Tropes And Tools Of Creativity: The Ontology Of Image And Its Unpredictable Operations. / Isar, Nicoletta.
The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research . ed. / Vlad Petre Glaveanu. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. p. 701-720 (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture).

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